Slow Learner? Struggling to Learn Physics Concepts

[kraphysics]

It takes me really long to learn new concepts in Physics. I don't know why but I have this feeling of utter discomfort when I first learn a new concept. To be perfectly comfortable with a concept, i literally spend hours thinking about it in the back of my mind, trying to gain a deeper understanding and see its every single detail and implication. Other people just learn how to apply it but that makes me uncomfortable. It takes me so long to get completely familiar with a concept to a point where I feel content. Does this mean I'm a slow learner and will it hinder me in college? I feel like it will because there isn't enough time in college to do this.

 

[Choppy]

Sometimes at the university level you are placed in a position where you have to complete an assignment in a specified period of time and likely that will likely mean there will be times when you have to work with only a superfical understanding of a concept in order to get the work done.

But overall, the personal quality of working with every new concept to develop a deeper understanding of it is something that will help you tremendously as a student. Because the thing is, if you ever leave a superficial understanding at just that, you can't build anything on it and you will end up further and further behind until you're sitting through your senior classes with no idea what's going on. I would incourage you not to see this as a hinderance, rather as a trait that's worth nurturing.

 

[sponsoredwalk]

All I'll say is that Roger Penrose was a slow learner, there's a video on youtube in which
he was talking about this & I'm sure you'll be able to find it...