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noname223
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- Aug 18, 2020
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I am friend with someone in college who is extremely savvy. I would like to know whether he considers me somewhat intelligent but I rather doubt it. I rather think he pities me due to the fact I am a complete mental wreck. For example he sees how extremely obsessive I am concerning some topics. I try to hide it with some irony but I am just very ill. He knows that I am mentally ill.
Yeah this dude uses the loci method. When I see his notes I am often quite impressed. He uses specail visualization in order to memories stuff. I envy that. I think I am too stupid for such savvy techniques. On the other hand I never tried it. My memory is very mediocre. I repeat the stuff extremely often in order to memorize it. If other people knew how much time I spend I would be kind of embarassed. I feel pathetic.
Though we differ in some ways how we study. I think he has this epistemological goal to expand his knowledge in the best possible way. In contrast to me: I just try to do everything in order to achieve good grades. I think sometimes he is a little bit inefficient becaue he always wants the perfect knowledge. I have a speculation: I think he wants to show the professors that he is smarter as them. And maybe this really is the case. But in my opinion it is not such an helpful behavior. I think professors don't like it to get lectured by a student. But maybe he is that smart that he can ignore the fact that the lectures dislike such behavior.
Yeah I wanted to get feedback from some of you. Have you ever tried such memory methods. I kind of envy that and I admire it. I think it would be barely impossible for me to learn them. I have problems with visualizing things in my mind.
Maybe someone in this forum has similar methods or some other tricks for me?
Yeah this dude uses the loci method. When I see his notes I am often quite impressed. He uses specail visualization in order to memories stuff. I envy that. I think I am too stupid for such savvy techniques. On the other hand I never tried it. My memory is very mediocre. I repeat the stuff extremely often in order to memorize it. If other people knew how much time I spend I would be kind of embarassed. I feel pathetic.
Though we differ in some ways how we study. I think he has this epistemological goal to expand his knowledge in the best possible way. In contrast to me: I just try to do everything in order to achieve good grades. I think sometimes he is a little bit inefficient becaue he always wants the perfect knowledge. I have a speculation: I think he wants to show the professors that he is smarter as them. And maybe this really is the case. But in my opinion it is not such an helpful behavior. I think professors don't like it to get lectured by a student. But maybe he is that smart that he can ignore the fact that the lectures dislike such behavior.
Yeah I wanted to get feedback from some of you. Have you ever tried such memory methods. I kind of envy that and I admire it. I think it would be barely impossible for me to learn them. I have problems with visualizing things in my mind.
Maybe someone in this forum has similar methods or some other tricks for me?
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