Posted by alexandra_k on August 29, 2013, at 2:41:28
In reply to Re: making things worse, posted by alexandra_k on August 29, 2013, at 2:29:48
because philosophers are high maintenance.
i got my own office as an honors (4th year) student. well... it was shared with 1 other. he worked in the mornings (from 6am). i worked in the evenings. we overlapped for a few hours of discussion and daily lunch. it worked perfect. then anna came along and... well... she did the discussion and daily lunch and aside from that we never saw her. things worked perfectly.
then i shared with study focused others. which was also fine. because if someone looked like they were working then everybody else was mindful of not disturbing them.
and then i got my own office again. which was bliss. i learned... to talk to myself. out loud. it really, really works!
so i'm having a hard time now not being able to talk to myself. not being able to read my writing out loud to hear how it reads. not being able to ask myself out loud questions. Dennett has something about that... Other theorists too, i think. about how asking yourself questions out loud and answering them out loud activates different neural circuits than thinking. thinking is... sort of internalized. more abstract. less effective...
and i'm having an even harder time not having somewhere quiet to work. i've realized: silent. that is the issue. it isn't that i need people to be quiet (talking quietly) it is that i need people to be silent. as in not talking. preferably not doing other things like coughing and rummaging either... but the latter isn't quite so bad. unless it is obviously done becaues someone is trying to get your attention.. which is really obnoxious and makes me want to punch the person repeatedly in teh head so they lose what few iq points they actually have.
i'm too old and grumpy to be an undergrad again. probably.
how do other people study in distracting environments?
or...
is this because i don't smoke anymore.
?
is that why this stuff drives me absolutely blow your head off insane?
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