It took me a year ... no longer, 18 months. Even longer than that, two years, to recognise what it took to get consistently high marks.
I couldn't fathom what people were doing.
Is it a formula? Or just application? Is there a method? Whatever it takes until you feel confident you know what is going on ... so read, read again, ask questions. Then going and read something else. Disagree, agree ... sleep on it. Then, ever so slowly it starts to dawn on you. This is what they are on about. I am prone to read well beyond the listed resources though, picking through papers until I find the one that speaks to me - the voice that expresses it in a way that has ressonance. And I am prone, within reason, to get the book that is cited in a paper I like ... so a collection of second handbooks under the table and a larger collection of eBooks. eBooks I read faster, highlight and take notes as I go along, then migrate notes and quotes into a Google Doc. I kid myself when I have a lot to read that it is different on the Kindle, the iPad or on the TV size screen that is ... well the TV (but my computer too).
A couple of weeks ago I took the TV and put it in the shed. One of those things the size of a pedal car.
No one misses it.
Everyone is on a screen elsewhere in the house. We stream movies. We use BBC iPlayer.
I don't miss clicking between channels looking for something to watch, finding nothing much but glued to the thing for a few things all the same.
Movies?
Ironclad
That's the way to do Medieval!
A week away in April and I still haven't recovered my old rhythmn. Nor will I. Instead of bloggin I have every conceivable thing to sort out with the house and garden. Somehow both were abandoned for three years - I wonder why that was?
The lawn was so bad I needed an industrial strimmer. The lawnmower I bought in 2007 is still in its original packaging in the shed.
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It took me a year ... no longer, 18 months. Even longer than that, two years, to recognise what it took to get consistently high marks.
I couldn't fathom what people were doing.
Is it a formula? Or just application? Is there a method? Whatever it takes until you feel confident you know what is going on ... so read, read again, ask questions. Then going and read something else. Disagree, agree ... sleep on it. Then, ever so slowly it starts to dawn on you. This is what they are on about. I am prone to read well beyond the listed resources though, picking through papers until I find the one that speaks to me - the voice that expresses it in a way that has ressonance. And I am prone, within reason, to get the book that is cited in a paper I like ... so a collection of second handbooks under the table and a larger collection of eBooks. eBooks I read faster, highlight and take notes as I go along, then migrate notes and quotes into a Google Doc. I kid myself when I have a lot to read that it is different on the Kindle, the iPad or on the TV size screen that is ... well the TV (but my computer too).
A couple of weeks ago I took the TV and put it in the shed. One of those things the size of a pedal car.
No one misses it.
Everyone is on a screen elsewhere in the house. We stream movies. We use BBC iPlayer.
I don't miss clicking between channels looking for something to watch, finding nothing much but glued to the thing for a few things all the same.
Movies?
Ironclad
That's the way to do Medieval!
A week away in April and I still haven't recovered my old rhythmn. Nor will I. Instead of bloggin I have every conceivable thing to sort out with the house and garden. Somehow both were abandoned for three years - I wonder why that was?
The lawn was so bad I needed an industrial strimmer. The lawnmower I bought in 2007 is still in its original packaging in the shed.