Oh I get that so much, its why I found friends who cared for me no matter what, and I stuck by them till the end. I still am friends with the same 4 people now for over a decade.
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I have always hated the whole zero sum gain mentality, its so destructive and sick
And itās not likeā¦ itās not like my skill scales. Iām not particularly good at studying for classes. Iām not good at turning my time into increases in grades. I have good intuition, not good dedication or whatever. I have a standard level of academic skill and trying to get anything past that is a massive upward slope.
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So itās just like. Yes I can get 5s on AP exams I didnāt study for. But once Iām past like. What I can do at a base level. Once I get to anything thatās remotely unintuitive for me. Itās very difficult to do any better than that
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I get that yea, I have really good intuition and im good at working myself to the bone, but my memory is really really bad, so like if I want to study for an exam, I can at most do so 24h before the exam or I forget
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My memory is bad, I have very little energy to do stuff past the base requirements, and I have wild amounts of ADHD that mean Ijust straight up do not do anything I am not strictly required to
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I can learn stuff, and then I know subconsciously, but like I end up knowing the answers to questions but I couldnt tell you how I got the answer. its like I was possessed when I did the exam
God that must suck, is it like you feel the need to do a ton of stuff at once, and you end up doing nothing?
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Iām specifically good at looking at a problem on an exam I donāt know how to do, and then by any means necessary squeezing the maximum number of points out of that problem
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It feels a lot like that, but happens even if thereās only one thing to do. You know when you put off a task for a while and you slowly start to go āoh itās difficult, itās so much effort to do, I canāt just start it nowā and you like talk it up in your head & never do the thing because it feels insurmountable. And then eventually when you finally force yourself to do it itās like, easy
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Oh I see, idk I hate only doing one thing at a time, I feel like im wasting away when I do that. Its why I end up usually doing 3-4 things at once at any given moment
I also have this but itās just that I genuinely feel terribly bored doing only one thing at once
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Granted having more monitors only enables me to do that more lmao
Iām known in my Splatoon mahjong server for plyaing Splatoon and mahjong at the same time. Do not do this
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I play like chess and have a convo with x and fill out some random bs form and do some work all at once
Iām good at like. Searching for little bits and pieces of lectures or notes I remember, deriving or approximating formulas from first principles, on multiple-choice exams narrowing answers down and figuring out which are plausible. If Iām unsure about a problem Iāll do it in as many different ways as I can and cross-reference the answers. Or approximate it using like, really messy techniques, and try to find a formula that feels roughly like what I remember while still coming close to the approximation. May techniques
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and its just like normal to me, but anyone looking at me thinks im like 3 people in one body with how many different things im doing at the same time.
One of my favourites is conversation + conversation. Iāll go to the dorm common room to like. Be around human beings because thatās good for me. And then a mahjong game night will start and I donāt wanna miss mahjong. So I go on Discord push-to-talk, put an earbud in one ear, and then talk to two sets of people at once
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Oh I do this to, I cannot remember formulas well, so I end up deriving them during exams
This is impressive ngl. I cant talk with somebody irl and do other stuff to, that is like the 1 place where it breaks down for me