After all, how can I prove that I studied and learned something if I never put anything down about it?

Today’s Ted Talk, after several failed attempts to watch one on lying, which I gave up on after the video crashing at the six minute, thirteen second mark four times in a row, was about love.

It was, despite the fact that I tried to go for just a psychology video, a little bit of history, a little bit of psychology and a little bit of science all rolled up into social studies and love.

It’s hard to summerize what I feel about it, because I don’t entirely know what I feel.

There’s some belief that what she said is right, but there’s also some belief that there’s more than what she talked about; and clearer than how she said it.

There was the history of love, and of working women, all the way back past agriculture, which was pretty nice, to see that image. There was the psychology of the study itself of love; what triggers it and what makes it work. And there was also the science of love, how it physically affects the brain, different ways that the male and female brain work. It was rather interesting.

But I’m not yet grown enough to challenge her thirty years of work, and so I’ll only say that she certainly went through it with confidence!

 

So I’m learning how to use Javascript at Code Academy. By working at and just working through the lessons.

On Monday, I’d done all but one problem of the introduction by the time that I had to attend to other things, and then was unable to remember how to get back in when working on a different computer.

So I came back to it today, and I could not remember any of the coding that I needed to solve the final problem. Which proved to be rather problematic when I realized this. One of my more definite flaws is that when I can’t solve something that I know that I should be able to, that it rebounds in my head until I can’t concentrate, only exacerbating the problem.

I’m not the biggest fan in the world of coding, and I’m not interested particularly in doing it all the time for a living. But it is useful, and I don’t like it when I can’t solve an easy puzzle.

Doing more work with fewer breaks in between helps very very much.

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