week 7 dq

My last exchange in class with a specific teacher at my last school was metaphorically word for word in equation format exactly like the conversation “Young Sheldon” had with his new professor. His old friend is resting in a hospital. But his boss took over his class.

The teacher at the start of the class said “Sheldon, this is a very advanced math class.” which Sheldon replied

“I know, and I will be right here in the front row if you need help.”.

The conversation at the end of that exchange switch to the field of cognitive psychology and it was almost dead on the money copied from our change. Although the exchange on TV was much much nicer.

As a child in school in science class the teacher opened up the discussion to the class “class tell me, where to penguins halch their eggs.” Since I knew the answer, I raised my hand. The teacher knew I knew the answer and knew there were several social butterflys in the class who did not like me. So he said “ok, different question. How many people in the class think TR’s answer is correct.” Abot half the class voted no. In that class my main bully raised his hand, the teacher called on him. “why do you say no.” Bully “if it comes from him, he is wrong.”

teacher “TV, what is the answer.”

“Penguins use their feet, specifically males. The female lays the egg, but the male uses his feet to hold the egg, then the chick.”

Teacher with an odd smile on his face “Class is TR correct or not. Raise your hands if he is not correct.”

Virtually the entire (popularity contest is the bully going to be more popular or is TR going to be more popular. Is the class going to be wrong just to be nasty to TR, or will good sense and logic prevail.) class voted I was wrong. It was a popularity contest, not science.

Have to ignore the idiots and those who only think about performing measuring contests. Have to just focus on the scientnfic method, facts, evidence, etc. Let the popularity contest people play their games. They can play on the games they want to, just not around me/us.

I usually ignore most of the input from classes, I am 48 and have been working in and around the field of science most of my life. I studied independently from 19-36 before going to college. My parochial school experience was close to the definition of painful in the extreme. I got good at ignoring most things aroudn me, and focusing on the how to improve. Most of my experiences have been negative, not because my information is wrong but because my behavior patterns rub people the wrong way. I do my work, skim feedback, figure out what each teachers “things are”, and ignore most of the rest. The feedback I get is the extremes, I either get no feedback, really nasty comments, or I get “wow, your writing is amazing to read. I have little to say back, but it is interesting to read your thoughts.”

Emotionally I focus on the work, I focus on the work seeking positive feedback when I have a good idea or a good sequence of ideas. I feel good for example about 6 ish weeks ago or so I was having a conversation with someone non in class and the person saw my work on the Pyramids of Egypt. I had one spinal cord aligned, but there was a missing piece. The person said, flip the spine, align the other to the other side. After an hour of graphic arts work in PS the persons comments proved to be dead on the money correct. Which led directly to the city of Rome Schema Janus. I focus on the scientific discoveries not on feedback. My emotions are geared towards the discoveries and making connections, not on the popularity contests of class.

People like me learn that our emotional states operate different from mean (statistics) people. It is extremely easy for mean people to hurt our feelings, so we have to learn to ignore most if the input to not allow the openings. It is an instinctual thing, most mean people have less than no idea their comments can hurt our feelings so easily. Most could not care less their input hurts, some go “oh, my words hurt you, great, I need to get even for the times you made feel stupid”.