Re: Kids on Teamwork LO3053

Jim Michmerhuizen (jamzen@world.std.com)
Tue, 3 Oct 1995 21:32:51 +0059 (EDT)

Replying to LO2963 --

Dave - in your rambling, wonderful, post, one thing caught my eye:

> Does this mean that I have to go into a long dissertation about my visual
> learning style in any new group prior to asking my simple (presupposition
> being that I cannot see a complete picture) learning question? Sounds too
> complex to me.

You're right: it IS too complex.

This relates to what I've been trying to understand for a long time: about
our language and what we use it for. The "dissertation" you allude to
here sounds very like something that both I and my wife used to do. We
began to get on each other's nerves doing it, and so finally we named it
and it has no power over us any more. It's "failure of nerve". Every
time Rosemarie read me a poem, she would preface her reading with a long
apology for why it wasn't better. Every time I played her a piece of
music, I'd explain why Glenn Gould's performances were better than mine.

It's a challenge to do without the explanatory remarks, It's as great a
challenge in a business meeting as it is in music or poetry. But think
how much time you save that would otherwise be devoted to those
explanations!

--
Regards
     Jim Michmerhuizen    jamzen@world.std.com
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