Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Did you know?
Did you know?... (not solely based on hard-core facts. More to tales from people. So pardon me if statements are inaccurate.)
1) It takes 3 months for something you do to become a habit.
So let's say you'd like to maintain a low-carbohydrate diet. Train your body to get used to it and after 3 months, the habit sticks. Perhaps this is also why it's hard to lose a habit. Maybe we need 3 months. So if you stopped a certain habit for 20 days and then restart it, you'll have to try quitting all over again, starting from Day 1.
2) The information you store in your brain goes through a process called 'pruning'
This is when un-used information gets deleted from your brain, and stored in your brain's recycle bin. That explains how we sometimes cannot solve a primary 6 maths question. Because we stopped applying those formulas. Hence the information gets deleted. It's only when you revise it again - restoring it from your recycle bin- and practising it, that the information will come back. Do you actually remember the formula for area of trapezium? and surface area of cylinder?
It's disturbing really, knowing that whatever you pick up from school will mostly be short-lived. I'm beginning to forget meanings of medical terms taught in poly. Terms that were drilled to us consistently. And now, it's going to be pruned away. How sad.
3) Famous Scientists - Einstein and Edison - has Dyslexia (learning disability in relation to reading and writing).
I got to know this information from the Hindi film, Taare Zameen Par [every child is special], about a boy who has Dyslexia but nobody knows of his condition, which leads to him being ill-treated as his father and teachers perceived him as being lazy, stupid and having a bad attitude towards school. Then came a new teacher who understands his condition and taught him strategies to overcome the learning disability (enter: SNO :)) A nice movie, really. I have the VCD if anyone is interested to watch.
Ok, back to my 3rd point. I was told that for people who has Dyslexia, their right side of the brain is more active than the left (left - logic. right - creativity). This probably explains how Edison came out with many hundreds of inventions.
4) If a baby skip the crawling process, he/she is more prone to get Dyslexia.
So don't go "So smart!" on babies who can walk before they crawl. It's advisable to let nature take its course and allow babies to undergo all the processes. The process of crawling is important as the hand and knee movement will somehow get the muscles in the body moving actively and information gets transported to the brain (or something like that).
Enlightened, yes?
1) It takes 3 months for something you do to become a habit.
So let's say you'd like to maintain a low-carbohydrate diet. Train your body to get used to it and after 3 months, the habit sticks. Perhaps this is also why it's hard to lose a habit. Maybe we need 3 months. So if you stopped a certain habit for 20 days and then restart it, you'll have to try quitting all over again, starting from Day 1.
2) The information you store in your brain goes through a process called 'pruning'
This is when un-used information gets deleted from your brain, and stored in your brain's recycle bin. That explains how we sometimes cannot solve a primary 6 maths question. Because we stopped applying those formulas. Hence the information gets deleted. It's only when you revise it again - restoring it from your recycle bin- and practising it, that the information will come back. Do you actually remember the formula for area of trapezium? and surface area of cylinder?
It's disturbing really, knowing that whatever you pick up from school will mostly be short-lived. I'm beginning to forget meanings of medical terms taught in poly. Terms that were drilled to us consistently. And now, it's going to be pruned away. How sad.
3) Famous Scientists - Einstein and Edison - has Dyslexia (learning disability in relation to reading and writing).
I got to know this information from the Hindi film, Taare Zameen Par [every child is special], about a boy who has Dyslexia but nobody knows of his condition, which leads to him being ill-treated as his father and teachers perceived him as being lazy, stupid and having a bad attitude towards school. Then came a new teacher who understands his condition and taught him strategies to overcome the learning disability (enter: SNO :)) A nice movie, really. I have the VCD if anyone is interested to watch.
Ok, back to my 3rd point. I was told that for people who has Dyslexia, their right side of the brain is more active than the left (left - logic. right - creativity). This probably explains how Edison came out with many hundreds of inventions.
4) If a baby skip the crawling process, he/she is more prone to get Dyslexia.
So don't go "So smart!" on babies who can walk before they crawl. It's advisable to let nature take its course and allow babies to undergo all the processes. The process of crawling is important as the hand and knee movement will somehow get the muscles in the body moving actively and information gets transported to the brain (or something like that).
Enlightened, yes?