#I'm generally very choosy with my wording which isn't a bad thing usually

[medicinemane]

There's such an obsession, at least in the US, with memorizing things almost just for the sake of memorizing things and it's honestly such a waste of everyone's time, especially the person being forced to memorize needless junk

The thing is, the stuff you need to know you'll start remembering more because you use it, and the rest it's fine to look up

Examples, I used to be terrible at spelling in part because I'm dyslexic. For some reason in the US people really care about how well people are about to spell, not as in "hey... don't know what this word is supposed to be, it would help if you could spell better", just like this... almost offence at the concept of someone being bad at spelling. At least, that's how it felt to me growing up terrible at spelling

Want to know what fixed it? Talking online with people, even more so once I had a spellchecker and stuff. Having to write words more often got me used to the spelling of those words because I was using them a lot, and the spellchecker let me see how to spell the stuff I was getting wrong

Same for me and typing. Used to do a pretty fast chicken peck, but when I started talking with people a lot through text I just kind of found one day that I could type pretty fast without looking. Didn't train it or anything, don't know if I do it the proper way, though I know it's pretty close

When I was taking chemistry, I knew the atomic weights of the elements that came up a lot, looked up the rest. Pharmacy, you get a good grasp on the meds that come up a lot

I'm not saying studying or trying to memorize things is bad, I just think we focus on the wrong stuff a lot of the time. It's better for someone to know how to look up how to get the right answer than to just have one specific answer memorized. If someone can quickly identify which formula they need for a math problem and know how to apply it, there's no problem with just looking up a formula they rarely use whenever they need a refresher

Method is just so much more important than minutiae, and no matter what it is the stuff that you use all the time you don't forget

#if you're wishing death on people you might just take a peek and make sure your moral compass #is where you want it. You don't even have to change it just check on it real quick #so you like nazis and pedophiles? #oh so you don't think people should learn things? you think knowledge is bad? #I really wish I knew how to say things without making it a huge wall of text #I might just say that last sentence but... you know tumblr makes me need to over explain and qualify every idea so much worse #still remember the time I made a post saying #and I had a couple people hop on that post and be like #and it's just like... ok #that post was about something specific I saw actually but like... I'm not giving a whole backstory for it just to justify it #anyway though if people can twist your words on something like that #what's to stop them from looking at the short version of this and being like #or something equally insane #and in many ways it's not that I really care #it's just I try to stay away from online drama and I don't need it finding me over nothing #I don't know this is a long pointless rant probably because I'm tired #but like I said... that kind of stuff is why I over explain even more these days than I always have #I'm generally very choosy with my wording which isn't a bad thing usually #it means I take time to think about how someone could take my words and I think lets me rework it so as to be as supportive as possible #one on one I think it's mostly a good think though I hate how much more I talk than other people #it makes me feel so annoying #and like I'm talking over them #anyway... thankfully despite having more followers than makes sense no one really bothers me #I can't know all the people who follow me but generally everyone seems cool #anyway... really want to go to bed here so hopefully I can break free and do that