What's Your MAIN Issue?

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I'm going to try the rule with my coursework, but I'll do it in 30 minute bursts.

Last edited by SteelMaiden on 27 Oct 2007, 2:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

but why would i want to spend my second ten minutes tomorrow doing the same thing as in the first ten minutes today? By tomorrow i might have a better idea!! Or doesn't it matter doing something different everyday? But then what on earth is the point? I easily spend short amounts of time on things constantly , that's the problem ; it's making myself carry on with something I already started that is difficult. I love beginnings.

Thank you even so. It's a lovely idea , the little and unscary ten minutes .

Can't you start something and then have it there for the next time that you work on it? Like when I didn't feel like writing a story, I'd just write some dumb sentences stringing a lame story together but the next time I looked at what I did, I spent the next ten minutes fixing up what I had done before. And then, sometimes. I started having so much fun working on what I wrote that I forgot to stop. That's when you know you're heading in the right direction.

My son did short bursts for his homework because homework was a phoboc thing for him. I didn't care if he completed his homework to get a good grade. All I cared about was that he could last ten minutes at a time. The teachers knew that we didn't care about grades, just that he was learning.

Fast forward to now that he's in college, homework is no longer a phobia. He paces himself well and gets it done.

Btw, we stopped caring about grades in high school because it was more important that my son learn about himself and stop jumping through NT hoops that weren't built for him. So the teachers just gave him smiley faces for grades but made sure that he learned. Without the pressure, he was usually at the top of his class in just learning. The teachers loved having an aspy kid in their class that was actually succeeding and the teachers actually got to teach him without following any silly special ed plan. He didn't graduate. He left the school, ready and confident to start college.

The weird thing was that when we enrolled him in college, they never asked if he had a diploma! He took tests to see what his academic level was and then started college.

I do that. .

it depends on what it is, but I can pretty much endure anything for five to twenty minutes. . .

works very well for me.

Without it, I'd have never gotten to love higher math. . .

Okay. My biggest issue is that, if I know for a fact that someone is completely wrong about something, I say so plainly, and I may dedicate hours to explaining why. I can't help it. When I'm given the, "I'll have my opinion, and you can have your opinion," speech, I'm driven to say, "I don't care. It's wrong. We could argue over this all day, and you'd still be wrong. You could pull out a gun and shoot me in the head, and you'd still be wrong, not to mention on your way to jail. At the end of the day, you'd have clung to an erroneous belief after having been given a rock-solid rationale on which to discard it, which would make you a bit of an ass."

I know it sounds weird to say this, but I really am flabbergasted every time I encounter someone who clings irrationally to a belief or view. It's one of the few things in the world that can actually reveal the mean-streak in me. When I start bashing on people for this behavior, I rag on them pretty hard. This...tends to get me in trouble.

))))Another issue: nominal confusion. Not incorrect spelling...incorrect words. Or incorrect phrases. Or incorrect paragraphs. Also a slight nominal aphasia, really. The old parietal lobe seems to be a bit buggy.

Last edited by Griff on 28 Oct 2007, 9:06 am, edited 2 times in total.

What you said reminded me of this character, Hollywood, from 2 Stupid Dogs would say. "Awww isn't that cute, BUT IT'S WWRRROONNGG!"

If you don't get the reference, visit here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hspNaoxzNbs

That character was awesome.