Guess I’m getting old…….

 

I guess I’ve always had an opinion which I tend harp on at least until confronted with undeniable facts or at least a reasonable chance of doubt, naturally based on my own judgement. I also don’t’ have a problem sharing my opinion but I consider myself fairly open and will listen to other opinions.

Or so I thought. It seems that although I might still listen to somebody else’s take on a subject, it doesn’t get integrated and processed as easily as it used to. Let’s take work for example where I currently find myself getting very annoyed with a new process that just won’t make sense to me. Others seem to get it, but they don’t seem to get where I am coming from. Rather then just being able to say “oh well, let’s just trust that they are right and that I am just a little slow” I am getting myself into one of those “Me is stomping through the office while balancing on high heels”-funk, banging my head on their “how come you don’t understand me”-door.

Adult education theory says that as children our brains soak up information like sponges, mostly because children have an ‘empty’ surface. The older we get and the more we learn, the more we have to integrate new information into already existing pieces of knowledge. Adding is always easier and faster then functionally integrating.

Well, this new process is having a very hard time integrating. Since I am responsible for training the rest of the company to understand it, there’s quite a bit of pressure to get it myself. How do I successfully teach people something that I don’t understand and can’t seem to get answers to?

I’ve already tried the “explain it to me as if I were 5”-approach. Maybe that’s the mistake, maybe I should have asked “explain it to me as if I were 98”.

Anyway, I am going for lunch now, a big plate of pasta so that I am too tired and too lazy to worry about new processes when I return and will just do as I am told.

~ by spasmicallyperfect on March 6, 2007.