{"id":2893,"date":"2012-07-23T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2012-07-25T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:40:05","slug":"learning-to-learn-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/simplelife\/2012\/07\/learning-to-learn-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Learning to learn–Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>My learning philosophy with pretty much every project is that I endeavor\u00a0is to learn as much as\u00a0I need so I can do the job and leave the other stuff to people who compose,\u00a0fix and invent\u00a0things.\u00a0 That is especially true with the computer.\u00a0 As examples, I don\u2019t have to have all the music memorized to lead the choir in their first rehearsal of a song and I don\u2019t need to understand the transfer of electrical currents to turn on a light switch.\u00a0 Usually, my life philosophy serves me will.\u00a0 That is until I try to invade a world where I need to understand more than I know.\u00a0 Like blogging.<\/p>\n

Our executive director gave me a wonderful gift after I’d been blogging for about a month.\u00a0 It\u2019s a manual on blogging.\u00a0 Excited and happy, I immediately started reading it.\u00a0 I underlined and tried to memorize as I went along.\u00a0 You see, after a time of blogging, I realized that I know so little about the Internet and it’s terminology that I don\u2019t even know what I don\u2019t know.\u00a0\u00a0That, of course, means that I don\u2019t know enough about what I\u2019m doing to know what I need to know. \u00a0Therefore, by ability to learn is hampered because I need to know how to do what I need to know.\u00a0 If you are confused by all this, imagine how I feel.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After a few hours of reading my rich treasure manual, I needed to put it down\u2013for a few days.\u00a0 This was a fatal mistake. \u00a0When I picked it up again, \u00a0I\u2019d forgotten to mark the page I was\u00a0last reading\u00a0but that didn\u2019t matter to me at the time.\u00a0\u00a0Because I\u2019d\u00a0underlined key passages as I went along.\u00a0I\u00a0was\u00a0confident that\u00a0I could find my way back to my place.\u00a0 The only problem.\u00a0 I somehow didn\u2019t remember one thing I had read. \u00a0I needed to begin from page one.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The acronoms were particularly troublesome. \u00a0I could not remember even one of them. This time reading through I\u00a0wrote out each acronym that I came to.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0I was\u00a0not only remembering what the acronym means but I\u2019ll understand the sentence better. \u00a0My philosophy in reading is the\u00a0Lemony Snicket Theory<\/em>which is similar to my life philosophy.\u00a0 I skip the words I don\u2019t understand and usually the context of the material will help me to understand the sentence and the words I didn\u2019t understand. This is not true in blogging.<\/p>\n

While I’m \u00a0into my fifth year of blogging, it has been only one year since I’ve become confortable inserting pictures. \u00a0In the process, WordPress, the website that hosts my blog has made adding photos much easier. \u00a0Additionally, I’ve learned to find my pictures from Google Image. \u00a0Then I download them onto my desktop and then use them in my blog.<\/p>\n

Jesus said that we should never begin a blog unless we understand enough about the Internet so we can estimate the amount of time it will take us to complete each daily article and draw traffic to our web entry.\u00a0 Sure, I am paraphrasing but you get the point.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a quitter but I sure wish I could sleep through the learning process, the way my choir often sleeps through rehearsals.<\/p>\n

As I venture into a fresh project, I find I have much in common with my mentally challenged members.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s easy for me to lose interest in the new things as they become more complicated.\u00a0 But that is childish, not child-like.\u00a0 Struggle helps us to learn and\u00a0survive.\u00a0 Forcing, Nancy and Lucy, members of the choir, to stay awake while we\u2019re doing the hard work of rehearsal is beneficial. \u00a0Likewise, rereading those first four chapters will\u00a0embed them into my brain.<\/p>\n

Have you found, like me, that you are sometimes enthused to start a new project only to become totally disinterested when it\u2019s a bit harder than you anticipated?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it possible that we are more like members of my special needs choir, than we are different?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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