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The Amazing Noobini Inner circle Oslo, Norway 1658 Posts |
I have a hard time learning from books. Just like some people are often better at math and other at the visual arts, I think there is a difference between those who learn the easiest from reading and those who learn best by observing and listening. Yes, reading is observation too, but it's more of an internal process.
I often claim that I can't read. Otherwise people will not understand why it is difficult for me to read efficiently and concentrate when I'm doing so. They will hand me a book and ask me to read it over the weekend or something. Which is not doable. It is difficult to understand that others are fundamentally different from ourselves. I read very very slowly and my concentration wanders off constantly no matter how hard I try to tame it. I don't think I'm dyslexic or anything. It just doesn't work well for me somehow. I guess I get bored because it takes so long. On top of that, English is not my regular language and I don't undestand words like "perpendicular" without stopping to look them up. I could never quickly read through a book in a day or so before beginning, like these instructions say. A few weeks maybe. But I started magic at 38 so I don't have the time to spend a year on each volume of a book series. I can write (fiction) in my own language, but I never read it. Audiovisual things on the other hand, I pick up easily. In real life I tend to notice all the details that most others overlook. I'm very visually oriented. Also I could never remember a tune from reading guitar tablature, but if I hear it, it will suddenly replay in my mind a month later. Someone's advice on something from a DVD will also suddenly pop up in my mind a long time after watching it. This is fairly common I think. I think that the most important magic reading I do is here in the Magic Café. Rather than going through a book from A to Z I find it more valuable to focus on one effect that I'm fascinated by and then reading snipplets here and there discussing different variations of that theme. And then get the books and eBooks and DVDs dealing with the most popular variations of this effect and read that part only. It gets cheaper after a while once you start to build a library. Visualizing every step of a routine is a great way of practicing for me. You perform in your imagination while your body is sitting on the bus staring blankly out the window. And taking notes when studying one particular trick. Yes... That is one invaluable tip I have gotten from this Café. This was a great text which I'm sure will be very helpful to many people. I'm certainly grateful for having it available to me. It contains a lot of important points that are universally true. But if I followed this list point for point I would not learn as well as when I simply let my curiosity for one effect guide me. These are ten steps that work for some. But not neccessarily for all when followed in numerical order.
"Talk about melodrama... and being born in the wrong part of the world." (Raf Robert)
"You, my friend, have a lot to learn." (S. Youell) "Nonsensical Raving of a lunatic mind..." (Larry) |
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