Learning

[azurelunatic]

When I'm too tired, I won't learn. This will frustrate me if you try to teach me something. My frustration will make me want to hit someone/something and/or cry.

I don't want to hit you. Please don't try to teach me anything when I'm tired.

Finally got that through Skippy's head. Am learning the trick of holding up hand to stop overenthusiastic friend, to have them stop talking without interrupting. Convinced him that I don't want to punch him hard, but I would if he kept talking. He stopped.

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[boojum.livejournal.com]

I had that problem with kempo. The group lessons were stretching, followed by exercise, followed by learning, followed by a brief wind-down. The exercise was supposed to be fairly brutal; since I was out of shape and never was taught things like how to breathe during pushups (*grumble*), it tended to be very brutal for me. I liked the effects on my body of the exercise, but found the learning afterward nearly impossible. Twenty or thirty minutes of brutal exercise in a hot room[1] completely removed my brain. It made me stupid and gave me trouble with balance. One of my criteria for any future martial arts endeavors is little overheating and no overheating associated with learning. It doesn't work. I would have gotten more benefit from the exercise in a colder room and I *certainly* would have gotten more benefit from the learning when not overheated.

[1] I run colder than everybody else. I also overheat more easily in exercise. Even stipulating that, eighty degrees is too warm for an exercise room.