This is the part where thinking in a new way comes in. A student who always gets the basic idea on the first pass may have no concept that it's even possible to look at something that's completely baffling and figure it out by simply staring at it and thinking.
If you get stuck, you can also toss it into your subconscious and wait a few days for a solution to magically appear.
This is DD's preferred method.
Heck, I
get it-- this is the relatively painless way, when you can afford it.
I'll just wait until it all falls into place... I have plenty of subconscious bandwidth to only be peripherally aware of the learning process, if I consider it at all, and it works just as well.
Mostly.
For things which don't have deadlines attached, I mean, and for which there are not external consequences/procedural requirements.
Yeah, okay, so this has limited application. On the one hand, rumor has it that this is how Kekule determined just how aromaticity "works" but
depending on epiphany is a risky strategy-- and one that feels like it isn't an
earned understanding, if that makes sense. So it doesn't do anything positive/authentic for our sense of competence/worth, either.
This is why we have tried to work on the metacognitive skill set to understand that distinction posited by Val-- that changing the HOW of your thinking is just as important as changing the direction or intensity of it.
