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I almost have to write to think. Or read it as if I were writing it.
DS gets so frustrated with me when he asks about something in his algebra and I have to come over and read it myself. When he reads it to me, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Nautigal, I am exactly the same way. I mean-- I just process auditory information so differently-- entirely verbally.
Weirdly, I can watch a movie with subtitles under far more distracting circumstances than I can listen to an audiobook.
When I knit, the latter calls for something mindless, and I can do a lace pattern with the former.
It's downright weird. I'm so not a podcast kind of person, and I hate talk radio.
Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
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Not true for me. I can either write or think, not both. Same. I'm an auditory learner and retain the most material without note-taking. My ideal is lecture note handouts that I refer to later on the day of the class. I skim once during the start of class then read it out loud to myself and it's in my memory for good. I should add that I speak a mile a minute and prefer very fast talkers. If only all my profs could have been former auctioneers!
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Nautigal, I am exactly the same way. I mean-- I just process auditory information so differently-- entirely verbally.
Weirdly, I can watch a movie with subtitles under far more distracting circumstances than I can listen to an audiobook.
When I knit, the latter calls for something mindless, and I can do a lace pattern with the former.
It's downright weird. I'm so not a podcast kind of person, and I hate talk radio. This sounds like me as well. The only time I ever got a speeding ticket was driving while listening to a audio book. I hate talk radio, podcasts and only enjoy audio books when riding in car on a long trip when I am not driving. No one in my house can read in the car, it makes us car sick.
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I can listen, write and think but I cannot type and think at the same time at all, listening or not. I absolutely cannot listen, write, think, and talk. The only way I can take meeting minutes is if I am not expected to participate in the conversation.
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Not true for me. I can either write or think, not both. Me too. That explains my thoughtless posts.
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I should add that I speak a mile a minute and prefer very fast talkers. If only all my profs could have been former auctioneers! I'm the same way! I love Vi Hart's videos for this reason--she "speaks" at the right speed!! Lectures are and always have been hard for me because people talk too slowly. I can't watch TED talks. I really prefer to read everything. I do listen to NPR sometimes, but only if I am doing something else that occupies me at the same time. I would never just sit there and listen to it. Augh! The whole idea makes me itch.
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I am not a good note taker in the sense that my notes are not good to look back at. However, I do find that jotting down a few key points helps me process *at the time.* Then I can throw it away.
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I should add that I speak a mile a minute and prefer very fast talkers. If only all my profs could have been former auctioneers! Me, too! People have always told me I talk too fast -- I tell them they don't listen fast enough. 
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Another article saying that writing by hand matters, this time focusing on younger students: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.htmlWhat’s Lost as Handwriting Fades By MARIA KONNIKOVA New York Times JUNE 2, 2014 New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep.
Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information. In other words, it’s not just what we write that matters — but how.
“When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris. “There is a core recognition of the gesture in the written word, a sort of recognition by mental simulation in your brain.
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