I read an editorial in a professional journal and it wasn't the first time that this guy has brought up unconventional techniques which I would like to share:
A technique that I have used, but management didn't really like it was to was to thow out any and all ideas no matter how absurd. It turns out that this is a good technique.
Now some things from the the editorial "Think negative. " A powerful technique is to find the worst possible solution and learn from it"
Observe
Ask questions
Play and experiment
Explain the challenge in simple terms to someone not associated with the problem.
be watchful for the automatic no
The article goes on to to say that science is essentially that where others duplicate and cooperate findings. You don;t get revolutions by taking the first solution that comes to mind.
Initially, here, I got a little rejected. Now, I screw up now and then and the sharp people here are willing to correct without arguing and I''m willing to correct.
Observations in real life though are hard to ignore. There are gotcha's and unknowns. I think intuitively with some science, but not exact science, to back it up.
I'm not by the numbers basically because I remember concepts and not definitions.
It's amazing what you can do with heat loss and surface area. Surface area makes a huge difference. I saved myself from falling off a roof by knowing that the coefficient of static friction is higher than rolling friction and that increasing the surface area increases friction, when I started to slide, I didn't panic. I just layed down and I stopped sliding.
School has a purpose and unfortunately, I've heard it tells you "what to think" instead of "how to think". It relies on memorization and that's it's downfall. From what I have heard, the tests are leaning away from memorization and are now stressing concepts which i think is good and probably harder for most people. That doesn;t help in learning a foreign language though.
Use the right tools for the job. If the job is "Getting a degree", then develop tools to get a degree. Those tools are get the best grade and spit out what the teacher wants to hear. I challenged and won. The reason I won was "I'm not supposed to know that now.
I think one of the hardest thing to unlearn was the electron orbits. I was initially taught that they were circular and later a probability distribution.
Another concept that I fought with was conventional current and electron current. I wish that concept of conventional and electron current was defined much earlier. It really came to light when studying electro chemistry and solid state physics.
Neatness is important when trying to present things to others and even to yourself sometime later. I'm like Bob Pease of National Semiconductor in many ways, His organizing system was never understood and his workbench was a mess. People say it could find stuff and then put it back in a different pile and find it again.
I understand that if you file chronologically and I do sometimes. I may keep things in chronological, project associated or say like tools or like items depending on the stage of the project. I know which pile my stuff is in and I think Bob did too. Are all resistors together - No, Some may be filed in the resistor bin where others are filed by project.
I'd say that I find it hard to complete projects because of interruptions and priorities and the inability at times to actually work on a project because of medical conditions. I don;t always have control over the priorities.
A technique that I have used, but management didn't really like it was to was to thow out any and all ideas no matter how absurd. It turns out that this is a good technique.
Now some things from the the editorial "Think negative. " A powerful technique is to find the worst possible solution and learn from it"
Observe
Ask questions
Play and experiment
Explain the challenge in simple terms to someone not associated with the problem.
be watchful for the automatic no
The article goes on to to say that science is essentially that where others duplicate and cooperate findings. You don;t get revolutions by taking the first solution that comes to mind.
Initially, here, I got a little rejected. Now, I screw up now and then and the sharp people here are willing to correct without arguing and I''m willing to correct.
Observations in real life though are hard to ignore. There are gotcha's and unknowns. I think intuitively with some science, but not exact science, to back it up.
I'm not by the numbers basically because I remember concepts and not definitions.
It's amazing what you can do with heat loss and surface area. Surface area makes a huge difference. I saved myself from falling off a roof by knowing that the coefficient of static friction is higher than rolling friction and that increasing the surface area increases friction, when I started to slide, I didn't panic. I just layed down and I stopped sliding.
School has a purpose and unfortunately, I've heard it tells you "what to think" instead of "how to think". It relies on memorization and that's it's downfall. From what I have heard, the tests are leaning away from memorization and are now stressing concepts which i think is good and probably harder for most people. That doesn;t help in learning a foreign language though.
Use the right tools for the job. If the job is "Getting a degree", then develop tools to get a degree. Those tools are get the best grade and spit out what the teacher wants to hear. I challenged and won. The reason I won was "I'm not supposed to know that now.
I think one of the hardest thing to unlearn was the electron orbits. I was initially taught that they were circular and later a probability distribution.
Another concept that I fought with was conventional current and electron current. I wish that concept of conventional and electron current was defined much earlier. It really came to light when studying electro chemistry and solid state physics.
Neatness is important when trying to present things to others and even to yourself sometime later. I'm like Bob Pease of National Semiconductor in many ways, His organizing system was never understood and his workbench was a mess. People say it could find stuff and then put it back in a different pile and find it again.
I understand that if you file chronologically and I do sometimes. I may keep things in chronological, project associated or say like tools or like items depending on the stage of the project. I know which pile my stuff is in and I think Bob did too. Are all resistors together - No, Some may be filed in the resistor bin where others are filed by project.
I'd say that I find it hard to complete projects because of interruptions and priorities and the inability at times to actually work on a project because of medical conditions. I don;t always have control over the priorities.
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