going thru college, i worked at group homes (delinquent minors, gang
bangers)...........
many of them had rather low IQs (90s), but try to debate with
them.......they held their own quite well and could make more
educated, intelligent ppl look like idiots...........
On May 22, 1:01 pm, arrested development <senzergk...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hey Hoobler I think there's a distinction that should be made between
> verbal intelligence and verbal fluency. I have a lot of professors who
> can probably be made to look foolish by some comedians. Sure, maybe
> you can write with sparkling clarity and rigor but it doesn't
> necessarily follow that you can express yourself with equal
> competence. Mnemonics is a good start. In addition to that I recommend
> joining your university's debate club and participating in as many
> debates as you possibly can. Joining a toastmaster's club wouldn't
> hurt either. I recall one of the member's here being a masters student
> of analytic philosophy and he would try to exercise his verbal
> dexterity by free style rapping.
>
> On May 21, 4:14 pm, Hoobler <whhoob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, all. I've been reading this list for at least a two years, but
> > this is my first posting; since this Google Group has provided me with
> > far more and far better information, hints, tips, leads, etc. than any
> > other source--e.g. books I found on my own, talking to more or less
> > expensive experts (nutritionists, psychologists, and other sorts of
> > self-improvement gurus), I thought that, in my first posting, I should
> > first say "thanks" to everyone who posts here. You are a curious and
> > ambitious and open-minded bunch of people, it seems to me.
>
> > At the moment, my main question is this: Does anyone think that or has
> > anyone had experiences that indicate that the more parallel (triple/
> > quad) forms of n-back are better for *humanities* people than DNB?
>
> > More specifically: I am an advanced student of the humanities, and I
> > am actually preparing for my oral examination at the moment. Any tips
> > specifically pertaining to studying for a graduate school oral
> > examination would be very greatly appreciated...I am already reading,
> > and practicing techniques from, a mnemonics books that someone in this
> > group recommended...
>
> > I trained DNB on line for about a year and a half and experienced some
> > gains. I think that I don't appreciate them much any more because, as
> > it seems, I consolidated them a long time ago and haven't noticed
> > additional improvement for a long time--until I started doing *triple*
> > n-back recently on Brain Workshop. The speed-changing and parallel
> > aspect of it seem much, much more "to the point" for me...I would say
> > that I couldn't say for sure whether I really am actually a better
> > scholar/philosopher/critic because of my recent TNB training--at least
> > not yet, but get this: my thoughts *feel* more organized a lot of the
> > time...This will sound weird, but I've learned to trust myself about
> > these things: I think that in some weird way I "see" the blinking n-
> > back board in my head interwoven with my thoughts somehow...I may also
> > have been seeing brighter colors in my dreams...But, in any case, I
> > have *definitely* had the sense that my thoughts are somehow more
> > organized even if, objectively, my ideas aren't better...It's fun for
> > me at least to feel things "clicking" inwardly a little
> > differently...But to return to my question: humanities people: what do
> > you think? (By the way,--well, as you can tell simply from my being a
> > follower of this group, I'm obviously also very much interested in
> > logic and science, but my vocation is in the humanities...)
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