lachha
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Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
#1002430 - 08/08/12 10:28 PM
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I can surf the internet all night lapping up arcane and useless information till the cows
come home. The instant gratification of of it, but can I read more than a few paragraphs
about a new vst before information overload, losing the plot, getting irritated and turned
off.  Wikipedia has this about Reversal Psychology: by "triggering"
a reversal between states, we can change the meaning attributed to the situation. What
seemed serious before, can suddenly feel exciting with the right change in situation or
mindset.  Does anyone have any tips or tricks on this? And how do you get
accurate vst envelopes for sound-designing percussion (only joking)
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Dynamic Mike
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002439 - 09/08/12 12:18 AM
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Print off the information you need to read. Next, and this is mission critical, turn off
your PC. Now put the kettle on & find somewhere quiet.
Otherwise if you're
anything like me, as soon as you read some new information in a pdf about a VST you feel
an irresistable urge to fire up your DAW & try it. Of course I always intend to pick up
where I left off, but in reality I might as well just delete the pdf & accept that I'll
never realise the full potential of whatever I've just installed.
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Not much in life worth running for. Or from.
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shufflebeat
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002443 - 09/08/12 01:58 AM
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Wise words, Mike.
I'm reliably informed we have at least three levels of
reading:
Scanning (for specific words or major points)
Skimming (to get an
overall view)
In depth (reading like a big boy)
It would seem taking in
diverse fragments of information encourages is to adopt the appropriate mental attitude
for the task to the detriment of other skills. I sometimes find it difficult to approach
any heavy reading head on, needing to read out loud like a beginner and pausing after
every paragraph to check I've absorbed the idea until my butterfly brain catches up.
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Ohm's Law states, "Your PA isn't as powerful as you think it is".
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Anonymous
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002447 - 09/08/12 06:30 AM
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I think you can interest yourself in anything. I often sort of convince myself that I'm
interested in the most tedious things just to get what I need done. But also, you actually
do find that most things are pretty interesting, and that everything is related too.
For me, that is until I have a drink on a Friday night, and then I find it
incomprehensible that I could possibly get interested in such things... "who was that nerd
possessing me??!"
But that's good, to remember why you're actually bothered
enough about such things: to make music. And I always want to make music!
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BJG145
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002458 - 09/08/12 07:36 AM
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Yesterday I was listening to AS Byatt talking about her novel Possession, which is
apparently stuffed to the gills with all kinds of fictitious extracts from Victorian
poetry and letters. When she was challenged with the idea that most people wouldn't want
to read all this guff she responded by saying that it was the reader's right to skip, that
everyone skipped all the time in novels, and that she skipped loads of stuff when reading
novels. I found that strange, coming from a novelist. I never skip when reading
novels. But maybe that's why I often don't finish them.
Technical stuff is
different. I mean, SOS for instance, I mainly just look at the pictures.
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tacitus
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002461 - 09/08/12 07:43 AM
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Looking at the pictures is vital. You can't remember every word you read (well, I can't)
and the pictures are an important clue to recalling where you read something quite
important. Usually I can find something in a book by focusing on the book's print, layout,
and illustrations, often to the point of knowing that the bit I want is in the top left
hand corner next to the picture. It's not 100% reliable but is does work reasonably well
for me.
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Anonymous
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002597 - 09/08/12 01:42 PM
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It might depend on what a person's aptitudes or tendencies are too. I remember a friend
saying he didn't have enough patience for life drawing. I'd never really associated life
drawing with requiring patience because I always enjoyed it. (The first part is like a
puzzle, where you plot the features (measure), then you slowly build it up.)
On the other hand, I remember him reading complete novels with ease (even ones he didn't
like), whereas for me that requires patient concentration, unlike drawing, which is for me
relaxing.
Reading is not a processs I enjoy. It baffles me how people would
rather stare at a book on the beach, than observe the crashing waves and weird array of
humanoids.
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lachha
Joined: 24/07/08
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1002653 - 09/08/12 08:47 PM
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Thanks for your helpful comments: put the kettle on, look at the pictures and move your
lips. I might try one of those text to speech gizmos if there are no videos available
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petev3.1
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: lachha]
#1003641 - 15/08/12 09:17 AM
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The writer’s first courtesy, is it not to be brief
Anatole France
La Vie
Littéraire (1888)
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can
read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
Christian
Morgenstern
Aphorisms (1918)
The art of reading is to skip
judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have the results of them
in our modern culture without going over the ground again. And even of the books we
decide to read, there are almost always large portions which do not concern us, and which
we are sure to forget the day after we have read them. The art is to skip all that does
not concern us, while missing nothing that we really need. No external guidance can teach
us this; for nobody but ourselves can guess what the needs of our intellect may be.
P. G. Hammerton
The Intellectual Life (1882)
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Folderol
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Re: Psychology: Monkey-at-a-typewriter-information-overload
[Re: petev3.1]
#1003720 - 15/08/12 04:50 PM
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Context is everything.
Quote
petev3.1:
The writer’s first courtesy, is it not to be brief
Anatole France
La Vie Littéraire (1888)
"They met.
They had kids.
They grew
old.
They died."
Not much of a romantic novel eh?
Quote:
It is one of the
oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly
different.
Christian Morgenstern
Aphorisms (1918)
So were you actually reading at all?
Quote:
The art of
reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have
the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. And even
of the books we decide to read, there are almost always large portions which do not
concern us, and which we are sure to forget the day after we have read them. The art is to
skip all that does not concern us, while missing nothing that we really need. No external
guidance can teach us this; for nobody but ourselves can guess what the needs of our
intellect may be.
P. G. Hammerton
The Intellectual Life (1882)
... and if the the work was
directions for scenic drive you definitely don't want to skip the bit that
says:
"Watch out for the sharp left hand turn just over the summit, as there
is a 50ft drop."
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It wasn't me!
(Well, actually, it probably was)
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