Comments on: Reality Blog: Remembering Algebra https://b2bwritersinternational.com/2015/04/reality-blog-remembering-algebra/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Mullen https://b2bwritersinternational.com/2015/04/reality-blog-remembering-algebra/#comment-517 Fri, 15 May 2015 01:36:14 +0000 http://www.b2bwritingsuccess.com/?p=3849#comment-517 Wow, great points, Nancy and Paul.

Nancy, that balancing act is the hardest part for me. Once I start learning something, it’s so easy to get sucked in and swept away. Then I’ll pop my head up hours later and wonder where the time went.

Paul, I absolutely agree that a combination of studying new things and revisiting old ones is the best path. And “the grandmother of capability”… nice.

Thanks for the feedback!
John

]]> By: Paul Black https://b2bwritersinternational.com/2015/04/reality-blog-remembering-algebra/#comment-516 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:58:19 +0000 http://www.b2bwritingsuccess.com/?p=3849#comment-516 Great post, John. If repetition is the mother of skill, life-long-learning is the grandmother of capability. Thanks for laying this out so clearly.

By the way I’m an engineer by training so I still study math and physics out of personal interest. I really believe that studying new things and continuing to re-visit subjects you’ve already taken keeps your brain “tuned up”.

]]> By: Nancy Ross Brewer https://b2bwritersinternational.com/2015/04/reality-blog-remembering-algebra/#comment-515 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:09:11 +0000 http://www.b2bwritingsuccess.com/?p=3849#comment-515 Struck a chord with this one, John! What a great analysis of your situation today, framed in the context of the past. It reminded me of a similar experience when — 15 years after the last university math course — I studied for the GMAT. Talk about starting over with arithmetic! But, as you described, the ABILITY to learn (the neural pathways) were still in my noggin somewhere. Most useful today? Your point about needing to continue learning, while controlling the time dedicated to that task. Thanks for the reminder about balancing our efforts. Well said.

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