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18 Dec 2021, 10:49 am

FleaOfTheChill wrote:

One thing keeps bleeding into the next and I find myself floating from topic to topic when trying to work one out. It's slowing my progress down.

I believe what's happening is the whole problem doesn't fit in your head at once, so you keep unloading/reloading parts of it. It's like analysis paralysis. Say, you are picking out a toaster oven and you have two you are comparing, and there are nine features you are comparing, but only about five of them fit in your head. So, you make up your mind on how they compare based on five, then you consider a few more and you make up your mind on those, but then you have to reconsider some of the other five, because they leaked out of your mind. Then some of the others leak out and you have to reconsider those. Etc.

Basically, if the whole problem doesn't fit in your head, you will hash the same details over and over, because you can't remember all your decisions, or the overall direction of your individual decisions is not clear because there are too many parts to remember.

I find it helps to write an essay on the problem I'm trying to solve.

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18 Dec 2021, 11:03 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:

This will do me just fine, thanks! ^

I only have a library copy.

Hey, if you were local acquaintance, i would give it to you. But since you're not , i'd have to get it inside your country. p&p would probably cost more than the item.

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18 Dec 2021, 2:56 pm

One of the most annoying things about my hair is people who know me ask if I curl it. They know me well enough to understand that I would rather play video games and watch cartoons than do something that damages my hair.

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18 Dec 2021, 3:04 pm

xxZeromancerlovexx wrote:

Being a biological female requires more maintenance in general & requires more executive function. The downside of female biology.

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18 Dec 2021, 5:44 pm

TenMinutes wrote:

FleaOfTheChill wrote:

One thing keeps bleeding into the next and I find myself floating from topic to topic when trying to work one out. It's slowing my progress down.

I think you might have hit the nail on the head here. I'm liking the essay idea as well. Looks like I'm writing tonight. Thank you for that. It is appreciated.

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18 Dec 2021, 7:43 pm

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Being a biological female requires more maintenance in general & requires more executive function. The downside of female biology.

This is really well put. I never thought of it that way before, but it's very true.

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18 Dec 2021, 10:44 pm

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19 Dec 2021, 9:48 am

How the Tuskegee experiment is being played out on a massive scale, with scientists having zero idea of the effect of giving so many vaccines to adults, over & over, but going along with it because of political pressure.

Also, returning home after being lobotmized by two vaccines in 2005, unable to say my own name properly and people interpreting my speech when I said my name. They heard 'Jeremy' rather than my real name when I tried to say it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/me ... experiment

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19 Dec 2021, 9:56 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:

blitzkrieg wrote:

Being a biological female requires more maintenance in general & requires more executive function. The downside of female biology.

This is really well put. I never thought of it that way before, but it's very true.

Yep, there are many benefits of being biologically female, but maintenance of ones own body is definitely not one of them.

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19 Dec 2021, 10:24 am

My first love, previously having invalidated my entire life experience and then accusing me of something I didn't do, never to speak to me again. This happens every Christmas, it's nothing to worry about. I am okay.

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19 Dec 2021, 10:27 am

I have a presentation tomorrow. Luckily my coworkers said just reading from the paper is okay. I hope my voice doesn't tremble and i don't stutter though.

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19 Dec 2021, 10:30 am

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I have a presentation tomorrow. Luckily my coworkers said just reading from the paper is okay. I hope my voice doesn't tremble and i don't stutter though.

You can get medication for performance anxiety. Ask your doctor for it, if you haven't already.

Also, if you prepare properly, you will feel in control & thus reduce the chance of becoming 'stuck' and becoming anxious.

Rehearse beforehand if you can manage it.

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19 Dec 2021, 10:33 am

blitzkrieg wrote:

AprilR wrote:

I have a presentation tomorrow. Luckily my coworkers said just reading from the paper is okay. I hope my voice doesn't tremble and i don't stutter though.

Thanks, i already take some medicine for anxiety. Also i know enough about the subject already but the problem is i sometimes struggle to express myself, to find the right words. I will do a rehearsing though hopefully it will help.

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19 Dec 2021, 10:36 am

AprilR wrote:

blitzkrieg wrote:

AprilR wrote:

I have a presentation tomorrow. Luckily my coworkers said just reading from the paper is okay. I hope my voice doesn't tremble and i don't stutter though.

Obtain a dictionary, a thesaurus & look up antonyms and synonyms for different words. Learn to type fast and then make word documents to store your clever words if you can't remember them. Put them in a file folder somewhere on a computer, ready to read them real quick if you want to have a 'killer' performance.

Insert the words where you can, without overdoing it.

Also, think about who your audience are. There's no point maximizing your full reportoire of word knowledge if your audience doesn't understand what you are saying.

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19 Dec 2021, 6:41 pm

The good and bad of Monday morning.

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19 Dec 2021, 7:48 pm

Totalitarianism, dressed in a medical gown, with a mask on.

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