Posted by dj on August 19, 1999, at 18:45:32
In reply to Thanks for your food subsitutes above ..., posted by Janice on August 19, 1999, at 15:36:45
When I am in the right space nothing seems boring and when I'm in the space I am much in these days often everything seems boring or intiimidating...step by step does bore me mostly because I can't seem to get them into my head and staying there...
I too have a couple of degrees and sometimes love ideas but I do get fatigued with details, particularly when I'm down which is often the case in recent years. Unfortunately I am oh too good at finding the worms/faults in apples/picture and too often miss the overall value because of details which distract or fatigue me, as I can be obsessive at picking at them...
Can't say I'm gifted -- the degrees were a struggle -- because of anxious/depressive patterns and outcomes -- oftentimes and sometimes flowed, particularly when the presentor and content were stimulating or the latter was presented that way by the former.
However it seems to me that a really good student can find the juice in any subject as I observe from some of my colleagues. By that definition I am far from there.
I've a friend with ADD who is a brilliant visionary and optimist, though he has had his bouts of depression in the past.
Good luck finding those unadulterated Macs. It's a sunny day out there now, the challenge for me
is to find some internal sunshine...
> I do miss Toronto, but what I really think I was talking about was my ADD and impulse eating and inability to make it to the grocery store, follow a recipe, or do anything that my brain considered boring. Your story reminded me so much of how I discovered I had ADD. I am a very gifted student, I have 2 degrees (I love ideas), but when I had to sit down in front of a computer and do boring things, step by step by step. Well, I tell you, it just couldn't/didn't happen. Think about it jd. I'm goind to check out Granville Island for Mac Apples, Janice
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