OT. Red mark on forehead

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Mike Painter

I have this rd mark on my forehead from slapping myself.
I wonder if others have experienced the same thing.

1. I spend a *lot* of time on a problem. (sometimes over a few days.)
2. I give up and post a request for help.
3. I push send.
4. I see the obvious answer, slap myself and have moved on before it appears
online.

This has happened about 80% of the time when I've really needed help.

Happened in collage once also.
I used all the tricks and did not know any of the answers on an exam.
Ten minutes into the exam I remembered it was an open book test.
I took out the book, glanced at the exam, put the book away and did quite
well.

Very odd because I was always prepared and the instructor and I thought
alike. I even made up a test question once while studying that was identical
with one of his.
He let me submit my paper.
 
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Allen Browne

Hi Mike

Sounds familiar. I'm sure that part of the reason is that in posting a
question, you have thought about your issue, defined it in your thinking,
distilled out the irrelevant aspects, and focused it down. By the time we
have done that to ask our q, we have already made significant progress
towards the solution.
 
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Dirk Goldgar

Mike Painter said:
I have this rd mark on my forehead from slapping myself.
I wonder if others have experienced the same thing.

1. I spend a *lot* of time on a problem. (sometimes over a few days.)
2. I give up and post a request for help.
3. I push send.
4. I see the obvious answer, slap myself and have moved on before it
appears online.

This has happened about 80% of the time when I've really needed help.
Click to expand...

I know the feeling.
 
J

Jeff Conrad

In the scientific community it is called the "Conrad Principle."
The amount of knowledge gained is directly proportional to the number of words typed before sending.
I have no idea where the name came from.
 
E

Ernie

Been there, done that...

To avoid this problem (doesn't always work btw), I usually
type out in word or notepad just what I'm going to try and
post. If I still don't come up with a solution, I re-type
it as a new post (with some cut/paste from one to the
other).

:>
 
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Brigitte P

Love it, I thought I was the only strange person around. I think the
explanation that for a post we must organize our question which may lead to
the solution makes sense; it forces us to discipline our mind. You also may
try to simply stop finding a solution, do something very different and fun
(but maybe nothing mind altering like too much beer (a little may be okay)
or drugs (none are okay, preach, preach), go to sleep, and voila you wake up
at 3 in the morning and have the solution. I think it's called incubation of
thought, and sometimes it works.
Brigitte P.
 
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Tony Toews

Jeff Conrad said:
In the scientific community it is called the "Conrad Principle."
The amount of knowledge gained is directly proportional to the number of words typed before sending.
I have no idea where the name came from.
Click to expand...

Hehehehe

Tony
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Tony Toews

Brigitte P said:
Love it, I thought I was the only strange person around. I think the
explanation that for a post we must organize our question which may lead to
the solution makes sense; it forces us to discipline our mind. You also may
try to simply stop finding a solution, do something very different and fun
(but maybe nothing mind altering like too much beer (a little may be okay)
or drugs (none are okay, preach, preach), go to sleep, and voila you wake up
at 3 in the morning and have the solution. I think it's called incubation of
thought, and sometimes it works.
Click to expand...

Agreed to both comments.

Tony
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