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[elainegrey]

From two weeks ago, nice bigger.


Taking asthma meds: still coughing. Took yesterday easier than perhaps i should have, but plan to start work shortly to get the hardest thing done. I went through the "Learning about learning" course week 3: this addressed procrastination and a bit about memory. It all continues to be a refresher, but -- if i had learned this before grad school!! I don't know how the depression would have played in, but the depression and the procrastination led to a vicious, vicious spiral into the black hole. I don't think memorization was an issue for me in grad school: indeed, the focus on just deriving everything from known concepts and not having to fill in blanks about names means i'd no need to memorize, just conceptualize. This section also addressed memorization and mentioned some of the mental hacks i've picked up in the past year. The Anki software i've recommended was given a brief positive shout out, as well.

In the slides there was another sad frog rendered in clip art and the lecturer noted some writing coach as recommending eating the frog first in the day. What is it with eating poor frogs? It's yams for me, and i'm off to eat mine.

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[amaebi]

You know, though I really liked frogs' legs to eat, as well as frogs as beings, I swore off eating frog in 1984 when I belatedly learned of their conservation status.

[elainegrey]

And so the metaphor fails for you too, as you either wanted to eat frogs or refused to eat frogs.

It's a pervasive metaphor in the procrastination self help world.

Poor frogs.

Maybe "eat a pinecone" would be a better metaphor? Clearly unpleasant to contemplate and probably painful?