I understand and appreciate the intent of what you’re saying, but I have really bad executive dysfunction/ADHD/whatever issues that make this not a realistic choice for me. This post wouldn’t need to exist if I had the motivation to sit down and read my way to victory. Long-form listenable content is also just much easier for me to multitask with.
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
1st rule of an adult: video is an extremely ineffective media for any information except for sport and porno. You’re a grown up now, learn to read.
lyth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
to multitask with.
Rule 2 of adulting: Stop trying to multitask. Multitasking is a myth and impossible for humans to actually successfully do. The more things you try to do at once, the less effective and capable you are at each individual task. Literally not a single human alive is actually good at multitasking. I understand you have issues, but whether you like it or not, you’re reducing your effective capacity to “get shit done” by choosing to try to do this impossible thing called multitasking.
hbr.org/2010/12/you-cant-multi-task-so-stop-tr
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7075496/
…clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-d…
npr.org/…/think-youre-multitasking-think-again
…mit.edu/…/multitasking-why-your-brain-cant-do-it…
neuroleadership.com/…/the-myth-of-multitaskingAcamon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fully sympathise. People are giving general advice, and there’s good evidence that it works for most people. I have adhd, and even I know that multi-tasking is distracting and that if I can focus entirely on something I will perform better. But I also know from decades of daily experience that if I try and completely focus on something when my brain is not compliant, then I will do much much worse.
I will learn a lot more by listening to an audiobook while I do chores for an hour, even if sometimes the chores distract me from the content, compared with trying to read a book. Because if I sit and try and read, I will manage one minute, get up and get a drink, reread the same page, want some music to cover up some distracting noise, then rememeber that I’m avoiding distractions so turn the music off… And so on, until after ten minutes I’m only in page 2 and I give up in frustration, drained and demotivated.
As an ever more aged adult, I think the one piece advice I’d give my younger self is “trust yourself”. I’ve wasted so much time trying to follow advice and rules that just never worked for me, and eventually I realise that my instincts were right and I should have just improved my own strategies instead of trying to become something I’m not. That’s not to say you know everything already. Listen to people, try their ideas out, experiment and all that, but don’t feel pressure to do what works for “most people” if it doesn’t work for you.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Don’t apologize for not having the same learning styles that other poster has.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you’ve got a resource for decent in-depth written how-to guides that isn’t buried under a mile-high haystack of SEO-optimized garbage, fuckin’ post the URL for it!
I learn shit in video format because decent info is a lot easier to find.
tisktisk@piefed.social 1 day ago
I respect these words of wisdom immensely as someone who should have had a mentor spell this out for me years ago.
I'm not trying to bothsides you at all because I agree with you 99%.
I just wanted to add a few niche areas like appliance/car/repairs/etc, videoform can be lifesavingly convenient in pinches
But most importantly reading is fundamentalSnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I think what a lot of people are missing here it’s that it’s a dialectic. It can be true that reading is important and it can also be true that reading isn’t always the best medium for understanding certain concepts. It’s not an either-or situation, rather it’s both, at the same time. I’m glad someone else recognizes that as well.
tisktisk@piefed.social 1 day ago
It's always hegel. It's always a fundamental impossibility that exists in everything. Has there really been 0 philosophers of any merit since Hegelian dialectics?
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
a few niche areas like
Life is life. No social rule is 100% correct at any time. Exceptions happen. Only mathematics can boast that (sometimes) :)
Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m going to one-up you here and suggest learning to learn. Some people can learn through long form video, some through reading, and some need to take notes and review them later.
For example, I hate all the extra fluff that goes into a written work and frequently need to delete sections until only the minimum information is there. Like deleting the first several paragraphs before a recipe actually gives you the ingredients and instructions!
Yermaw@lemm.ee 1 day ago
That’s exactly why I refuse to use tutorials from YouTube. I’m just here to learn the thing you said you were teaching in the title. Im not looking to smash that subscribe button and ding the bell and comment below if I want to see more and see how all your other videos were doing or learn about how you got started in whatever field this is or when the thing was invented or little known facts about the thing that is useless filler to get you up to 10 minutes and im still not interested in like and subscribing and I don’t want to hear about how grateful you are about getting to whatever number of subscribers you have and just get to the fucking topic you promised you bitch
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s silly as sometimes video is preferable especially for things like repair and “how-to” instructions.
Not everyone has the same learning style you do.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Last I heard, “learning styles” are a myth
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seriously I will read five pages your bullshit before I spend 45 seconds on your video no problem.
tyler@programming.dev 1 day ago
This is such a weird take. Do you learn in school mostly by reading or mostly by paying attention to the teacher and listening? Yeah video is terrible for things like news which just state information and there’s no deep explanation required but visuals, especially moving visuals, supplement the learning process to an extreme degree.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This is one of my all-time least favorite takes.
For a lot of stuff, text is a good way to present information. For a lot of other things, information is best processed visually, often in the form of a video. Think repair, building stuff, 3D software, complicated GUI software in general, sports and gym technique, physiotherapy, anything that involves spatial motor skills really.
Imagine if IKEA instructions were text-only?
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Imagine if IKEA instructions were text-only?
Illustrations are not forbidden. Every technical non-trivial book has illustrations. That’s normal.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Either way, there is a lot of things where a book, with illustrations or not, is an inefficient way to convey information.
Aliktren@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People learn in different ways. I have read many books and also watched many videos, and also been taught by others. All worked in different ways.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
and anything where you’re being given instructions where you’re supposed to copy what the person in the video is doing, video works very well for that too
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reading a manual on how to fix the flux capacitor in my car is MUCH less useful than a video.
With a video, I can see what it looks like, where I can find it and how to get out back in there.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Let’s change it to “in many situations” and yes, learn how to read documentation