I guess it also helps to have context of my thoughts. In the case of this post, I had come up with a thought/theory about something and when brought up in conversation I was mildly shot down because that had already been theorized. Was it my fault that I arrived at some thought just like someone else before me? No, and I think that I shouldn’t be discredited as a fraud just because I wasn’t first. (Of course, if I had tried to take the idea and pawn it off as my own, I should be called out on that.)

How much do you think that you read? What are some good books that you’ve read lately? I’m always on the lookout for good recommendations.

Oh and I tried sending you FlickrMail so that you could add me as a friend.

Let me know if you want to see pics from our special delivery. I had to make it private to protect the identity of the kids.

but what i was really referring to was the point about “coming up with it yourself”. you have inventors and innovators and imitators. do you think you, me, we attach different kinds of value to these different kinds of talents ppl have? i’m all for coming up with something yourself or even arriving at the same conclusion separately. but there’s a simplistic beauty in learning by rote. of course, you can’t just let it lie there. i’m sure newton, socrates, and einstein had to learn the basics and then move on. maybe that’s what made them so great, they learned it, didn’t accept it as the end all, did their own homework, and then changed the face of the game.

aaanyway, i believe the book ms. q is talking about is tipping point.

I think that I’m currently enjoying learning some Python (it’s a programming language). Over the course of my life, though, I enjoy learning all kinds of things! I am often asking why things are the way that they are. I question a lot of things, and that leads to me learning new things.

I enjoy words as well. Of course, they’re not exactly my profession as much as they are for you. But I enjoy a good game of speed scrabble or boggle all the same. I also like to use words that are more interesting (read different) than what most people might use. Those words are just in there from all of the years of reading I think.

I think “book learning” works very well for some people because that’s how their mind works but that’s not how everyone’s mind works. I’ve read about different types of intelligences and am fascinated about how the mind works and learning can be mind and body and emotion. Many times we recall things more quickly because of an emotional link. Some people learn better visually.

I googled for types of intelligences because I couldn’t recall them all and here’s one I found: http://skyview.vansd.org/lschmidt/Projects/The%20Nine%20Types%20of%20Intelligence.htm

I did the school learning pretty well but there are many successful people who weren’t good at school. You mention Socrates - If I recall, the “Socratic Method” was to question and move from question to question based on the answers.

In college we were required to take 3 “Critical Thinking” courses. Those courses were great - I found that they taught me how to think. If you graduate from college and don’t know HOW to think, you will be stuck with waiting for others to find the answers and their answers may be wrong or not right for you.

Are you mocking my value system for different types of learning? Or are you talking about things like visual, experiential, and aural learning?