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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:41:27 PM EDT
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Yes I have but I forget what it was
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:43:39 PM EDT
[#2]
Water skiing.
One Summer when I was a kid I tried and tried to get up and just couldn't do it. The very next Summer I got up first try. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:44:35 PM EDT
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First time looking at an E6B
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:47:46 PM EDT
[#4]
Calculus
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:50:01 PM EDT
[#5]
Rotary engine
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:53:48 PM EDT
[#6]
Marriage
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:55:25 PM EDT
[#7]
Using the other hand.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:55:49 PM EDT
[#8]
Learning to drive a stick-shift back in the day.
Riding a unicycle. Throwing a disc golf driver 400+ feet. Making perfect BBQ meat on a smoker. |
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:55:57 PM EDT
[#9]
Life.
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Posted: 2/14/2017 11:56:00 PM EDT
[#10]
Realizing after many many years that La Jolla, CA was not pronounced "la jo la" and instead pronounced, "la hoy ah"
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:01:55 AM EDT
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Calculus |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:02:25 AM EDT
[#12]
Nope. I can still remember stuff, but never get that "click". Something imbalanced I think with the pleasure seeking or reward chemicals in my brain.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:05:09 AM EDT
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All learning is like that.
Difficult learning, that is. The key is accepting it, recognizing the plateaus and powering though it. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:14:08 AM EDT
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Liberalism,,,,,,,,once I accepted they are mentally ill,,,,,,,,,, It has because way easier to bury family in the back 40 next to the old D4 dozer
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:14:41 AM EDT
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Playing guitar was like that for me. I would struggle with a part and practice it, then after a few days without playing it...I'd nail it.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:15:09 AM EDT
[#16]
SQL
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:15:10 AM EDT
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Calculus Me right now. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:16:07 AM EDT
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This. Before the magic moment, they might as well be speaking Swahili. After, it is as easy and natural as breathing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Calculus This, Cal I was greek until Cal II, then Cal II was greek till Cal III. Cal III some how worked its way into my brain, but Diff EQ will always be bad memories/flashbacks even though I got a C. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:16:16 AM EDT
[#19]
Absolutely. I am working on getting my CFI (flight instructor), was really confused my first few lesson's but now it' starting to come together.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:18:31 AM EDT
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This. Before the magic moment, they might as well be speaking Swahili. After, it is as easy and natural as breathing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Calculus This, but it was multidimensional vector calculus (redundant, I know) where that click finally happened. I distinctly remember that 'click' feeling too. Like the eye doctor flipping the proper lenses into place on the eye tester machine. Just suddenly, "hey, I can see what is going on now" Of course, I haven't used that math more than once since then. But I needed it as a prerequisite course so I did use it once afterwards. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:18:45 AM EDT
[#21]
Women
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:23:40 AM EDT
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Calculus Yeah, Calculus didn't click till Engineering Physics, then it was like now I get it, well... at least until Calc 3. 
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:26:10 AM EDT
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I don't expect any of my students to really get a concept the first time through, so I loop back to previous concepts after presenting some of the stuff that builds upon those concepts. I think once you see where it's going, only then do some of those earlier concepts really make sense.
If all else fails, I just punch them. Seriously, if your professor punches you in the face ... you remember that. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:33:13 AM EDT
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Typing correctly and financial statement analysis.
I still suck at flying.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:50:34 AM EDT
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My high school math teacher said he never worried about material on tests that was less than 2 weeks taught. He said it needed to fester around in your brain for a bit before it became understood. Too soon and it is rote, shortly after it is understanding.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 12:58:31 AM EDT
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No, either I don't understand it and never will or it clicks. One or the other I cannot have both.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:06:10 AM EDT
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I was a Paramedic for two years before I realized PQRST was alphabetical.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:08:42 AM EDT
[#28]
Diving. I love it and yet it's kicking my ass. Lots of pool time this winter working on stuff with both instructors as well as with a buddy. It's gotten me off my ass and into the pool doing laps. 400 yards 3-4 times a week the past 6 weeks in snorkeling gear. Doesn't seem like much but I was a sloth before I started diving late last summer. Have to be on top of my game for my Lake Huron wreck diving trip in July.
I had stuff start to click a couple of weeks ago and it was an incredible experience. More to work on, but I'm getting there. Doing my Advanced course this summer, with my Deep and Wreck classes on Lake Michigan off a dive boat instead of at the local quarry. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:08:43 AM EDT
[#29]
Stationed in Germany listening to "Use of deadly force" briefings that included the line, "Call out Halt in English and the local language before firing a warning shot....".
I spent 18 months wondering what "Halt" is in the local language. The moment I figured it out was exciting....and humiliating.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:20:36 AM EDT
[#30]
Lathe operation. Sitting in the back of the room and barely hearing the instructor did not help.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:23:01 AM EDT
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Stationed in Germany listening to "Use of deadly force" briefings that included the line, "Call out Halt in English and the local language before firing a warning shot....". I spent 18 months wondering what "Halt" is in the local language. The moment I figured it out was exciting....and humiliating. I was showing some German guests around SF and they were about to cross an intersection. I noticed a car wasn't stopping and said, "Stop." They didn't heed me and then I remembered to say, "Halt!" That worked.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:31:01 AM EDT
[#32]
Casting a fly rod.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:31:45 AM EDT
[#33]
Surfing as a kid, groveling in whitewater and getting worked over, then dropping into that first clean face and thinking, "This is it!!". I've been an unproductive member of society since according to others. I should be getting more done they say.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:37:53 AM EDT
[#34]
Learning the repeating color combinations in a 25 pair cable.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 1:45:44 AM EDT
[#35]
a good trigger press
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Posted: 2/15/2017 3:49:00 AM EDT
[#36]
Digital control system operating a VFD or analog/ digital drive. When I finally figured out the puzzle, it all "clicked" and became simpler.
The best challenges have been the technical troubleshooting. On a few occasions I've gone home for the night without an answer to the problem, only to figure it out in my dreams. <~ this was the most bizarre for me at first. Walk in, in the morning and make a few parameter changes and viola! |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 3:52:51 AM EDT
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Language learning. I was sitting there one night listening to the cunt from a Michel Thomas tape ramble on to her muslim refugee audience. I had been having issues with word order. Reading I could do fine but forming my own sentences was rough. Finally it just hit me and it was smooth sailing. Mentally I was like "holy shit I got it" as I fell asleep to the droning on.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:15:21 AM EDT
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Learning how to shift a three on the tree.
I know there are others but that was one of the biggies. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:26:18 AM EDT
[#39]
Backing a trailer
<---had lots of informal training on backing 18 wheelers some years ago before ever backing any other trailer. Now they're all the same to me. 
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:41:54 AM EDT
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Backing a trailer <---had lots of informal training on backing 18 wheelers some years ago before ever backing any other trailer. Now they're all the same to me. Good one. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:44:58 AM EDT
[#41]
yup...
Lots of things... |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:45:00 AM EDT
[#42]
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Life. |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 4:48:40 AM EDT
[#43]
Yeah. As a matter of fact...I used to call those days (When everything seemed to suddenly
"gel" for me) "Click Days" .  The day when I stopped rethinking or doubting every choice
I made and just realized what I needed to do to get shit done. "Seems" like it took 2-3 weeks for me (FWIW). |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 5:35:41 AM EDT
[#44]
Land nav.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 5:53:51 AM EDT
[#45]
Seatbelts on airplanes.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 5:59:26 AM EDT
[#46]
Rolling harriers
Down angle shots in Duck Game Opening a balisong |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 6:07:11 AM EDT
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This, Cal I was greek until Cal II, then Cal II was greek till Cal III. Cal III some how worked its way into my brain, but Diff EQ will always be bad memories/flashbacks even though I got a C. Same |
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Posted: 2/15/2017 6:23:31 AM EDT
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i learn in one of two ways: either something immediately makes sense to me, or (more often) it remains a mystery against which i bash my head until one day it clicks. there's pretty much no middle ground.
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Posted: 2/15/2017 6:32:51 AM EDT
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Opening a balisong I mastered that in high school after saving up for a Benchmade. The other day, I looked in my son's bedroom and saw what I thought was a butterfly knife on his dresser. Turned out to be a comb. I picked it up, walked into the kitchen, and started opening and closing it real fast in front of him. He was like "Whoa, Dad, how do you do that?!"
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Posted: 2/15/2017 6:34:04 AM EDT
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The tab and ? Buttons are your friends when learning CLI commands. Write them all the way out at first, later on you can start abbreviating them.
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