While on the way down to the store a while ago, I was considering the BD videos I had just watched on YouTube, and it mingled with the blog post from earlier today, about lack of practicing. I was thinking about why I don't like practicing: it basically amounts to the fact that the maintenance of dance gets to me before I can get to the fun of dance can be enjoyed. The few times that I have practiced at home, I didn't even bother to warm up because I would quickly lose interest and just skip past it. Even when I go to the gym to exercise, I do a really quick warm-up. It only gets intensive when I am concentrating on building my stomach muscles and/or reducing stomach fat. I never go for full sets or repetition of said reps when on the weights. When I went to dance class, I would be bored before the warm-up was even finished. Actually, in the case of warm-ups, I don't know if the word 'bored' actually qualified. In those instances, it's probably a combination, with bored on the lesser end and not wanting to struggle more because of being tired on the higher end. Anyway, it occurred to me that linear thinkers probably have more than a few thoughts about people like me in these situations: we're lazy, being childish, having no push or drive within us, etc. I think that the second thing may be closer to the mark, however not for the reasons that they would think. In the case of some abstracts such as myself, it's more the fact that we have not developed a lot of self-control, so we don't know how to push through the 'not wanting to', and most especially, doing that without some other outside motivation involved. In the case of my going to class, my staying for the entire class had more to do with not wanting to waste the money that I had already spent, and not wanting to miss what would be covered in the second part of the class. And depending on the time of the year, that could amount to my having to miss out on performing in some production. And that I would hate that, since I really do love the performing part, and really, who doesn't?
Then the thought occurred to me that if people (i.e. linear thinkers) could hear my thoughts in situations such as that, like when I'm saying to myself why I really hate being in a given situation, such as practicing, they might find it enlightening. They might really get a better understanding of what doesn't motivate us, which of course would lead to a better way to help us help ourselves. Of course, that kind of situation is a long time off. But then I hit upon the epiphany that in the case of someone like me, maybe we can. Because some of us (abstract thinkers) still 'think out loud', or, in other words, have not transferred our external thinking to internal thinking as most people learned to do in childhood. (I thank Dr. Barkley for his book that actually states why this happens to some of us) It came to me how I could really benefit those not like me. What if I were to record my 'external' thoughts? What if I was to keep an account of my thoughts via a recorder, so that those not like me could get a better idea of our (i.e. abstract) internal processes? Interesting notion.... because it would also explain to those like me (an abstract thinker) why we do what we do ...
As I said, interesting... I think that it would make a very interesting paper.
Thanks ….
Monica Collins
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