OK, I've tried to continually refine this blog on content - writing and pictures. The publishing has been a bit haphazard - sometimes 2 posts in a week, sometimes over a week between posts. Juggling blogging with manual work I was doing recently has sometimes been difficult. The organisation is getting better - I'm adding stuff as and when I think of it instead of trying to do it all in one sitting.
Am going to try to publish a post once a week every Thursday for those who are interested.
Having thought about it, could it have been a school/exam thing when you try to do everything in one sitting?
I can understand the reasoning behind doing everything at once under exam conditions - still the best way to test what you have learnt in my opinion - seeing how you perform under pressure. And I say this as someone who wasn't exactly a trail blazing qualifications superstar prizewinner with blue chip companies lining up to hire me...
The problem with this is, you can carry this over into adulthood and apply it to everything else - like problemsolving and creativity. Where it's inappropriate sometimes because you need time to think about something you haven't done before. So I've found: you cannot think of a way to solve problems or create something within a short space of time. I often gave up. Now, I've found, when I start something, hit a barrier, have a think about it, repeat if necessary, the solution or creation either gradually evolves, or it's a bingo!/Eureka! moment. It all becomes clear. This is applicable to working on the bike, especially when I wanted to fit that saddle mounted toolkit. Of course, I tend to think "why didn't I think of that at the time?" (A bit like bicycles really...in all the thousands of years of mankind's existence, it took until the latter half of the 19th century before a simple thing like the pushbike was invented).
Which IMO goes to show that pressure is a good thing; when applied at the right time...
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