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CaptainQuasar
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physstudent1 has resurrected a bit of a necrothread here but I found it quite interesting to read up on the earlier conversation.
I think that your initial comprehension of something has a large influence on how much rote memorization you end up needing to do. I do well with many different academic topics and with many things in my field, software engineering.
But a couple of times, once when I was in high school and for a little while when I was in college, I worked as a Certified Nurse's Aide and I was absolutely horrible at it. The steps you had to go through for various procedures just didn't make sense to me so I had to try to memorize these long lists of steps. Whereas for many other people everything just sort of made sense and they could practically guess what to do next because they had some inherent understanding I did not.
Similarly, I went to college with a woman who had worked as a Nurse's Aide and is now a paramedic. That sort of work - and paramedics have much more complex and longer protocols and procedures they have to follow - makes perfect sense to her and is relatively easy but doing any sort of academic work required enormous effort on her part and lots of rote memorization.
I think that your initial comprehension of something has a large influence on how much rote memorization you end up needing to do. I do well with many different academic topics and with many things in my field, software engineering.
But a couple of times, once when I was in high school and for a little while when I was in college, I worked as a Certified Nurse's Aide and I was absolutely horrible at it. The steps you had to go through for various procedures just didn't make sense to me so I had to try to memorize these long lists of steps. Whereas for many other people everything just sort of made sense and they could practically guess what to do next because they had some inherent understanding I did not.
Similarly, I went to college with a woman who had worked as a Nurse's Aide and is now a paramedic. That sort of work - and paramedics have much more complex and longer protocols and procedures they have to follow - makes perfect sense to her and is relatively easy but doing any sort of academic work required enormous effort on her part and lots of rote memorization.
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