It's been a while yet again! Turns out that it's hard work to write a blog! Time passes, things change, and before you know it, months have gone by and you wonder how the heck you got here.
These last few months have seen me through changes that have made me question a lot of things. It's been almost a year since I embarked on this "career change", or "shift", or whatever label fits on a given day, but really, this last year has seen a shift in most everything I thought I knew. I live in a different city, I study at a different school, a deep and wonderful partnership has ended, and I spend a large amount of time every single day feeling confused because I am new to what I am studying. Any one of these changes can seem overwhelming in and of themselves, but jam them all into a year and you have a recipe for some forced and intense self-reflection!
The good news is that I have learned a TONNE about how I learn. Turns out that I make the same mistakes while trying to solve Statistics problems as I do trying to master the Ein Heldenleben excerpts for an audition! I suppose that shouldn't be as surprising as it felt when considered on a purely logical level, especially from the girl that keeps saying that it's all connected! I suppose somehow I thought that since I was starting something that was seemingly so different, I would not make the same types of mistakes. Turns out that the study of Music Performance, the study of Chemistry, the study of Human Nutrition, and the study of Statistics are specialized terms for the study of Problem Solving. A supreme art, indeed. Figure out how to solve the problem, and you can do anything. Any. Thing. Sounds simple, no?
Realizing this again and again as the year has progressed has given me the opportunity to TH!NK about what all of this is saying. What if life experiences are really a type of mirror that can tell us something about ourselves? Isn't it true that lessons are there if we're if willing to receive them? Isn't it true that a person will likely repeat the same mistakes over and over again if they do not learn the lesson the first time, the second time, the third time? Isn't it true that it's a matter of perception and readiness to learn?
If it's true that I make the same types of mistakes while trying to solve Chemistry problems as I do when preparing a piece of music, is it also true that I make those same types of mistakes in my financial decisions? In my relationships with the people in my life?
Don't get me wrong, I am not the type to regret my decisions or experiences. Everything that I've experienced in my life, good and bad, has shaped who I am, and most of the time I'm really happy to be that person. I wouldn't trade that for anything, but I do wonder how much the pattern influences my problem solving skills in other areas in my life. If it does, at what point will I learn the lesson?
Thoughts on this?
1 comments:
I make the same mistakes all the time. My brain works the same way all the time no matter how I try and intellectualize things. I've found that sometimes you can short circuit one or both thought patterns by connecting them together.
For example, I'm terrible at math and I'm terribly competitive with my friends. So, I tried competing with my math geek friends. Of course I didn't win, and I got frustrated but it allowed one flaw to overwhelm the other.
Anyway,
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