Speaking for personal experience, I'm pretty sure the "brain afraid that it's not the right answer" stems from overly critical authority figures (parents, teachers, bosses, etc) or being bullied when you were a child. I suffered from the problem when I was younger (took me decades to overcome it enough to become reasonably socially functional). And thinking back to my childhood I'm pretty sure I know exactly why I became like that (I was bullied). I actually got to see it happening when my workplace hosted a bunch of high school kids for confidence-building activities. In the Q&A part of the activity, every time one of the unpopular kids started to give the right answer, one of the popular attractive kids would bully them to shut them down. "Why are you answering when you never know the right answer?" I really wish schools and teachers wold do more to stop this, because it's extremely damaging to kids' psyche. Stupid stuff like playing games without keeping score doesn't help.
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I follow a guy on YouTube called Dave Ramsey, he's big into finance and how to conquer debt. One of the things he talks about is "Analysis Paralysis" where people get so afraid of making the wrong choice that they don't make any choice at all and panic because they're too afraid until it's too late to make any choice, and not choosing becomes their choice instead! It happens to a lot of people and I've had it happen to me before when trying to get bank loans and stuff.
You're not alone in the slightest, I actually had this happen to me today when I was deciding if I could afford a phone payment before my car payment or if I had to wait! I haven't made either payment yet because of it, and try to pay my bills like a week early just incase so I have time to decide!
This is a always thing.ig gets worse with some fonts and spaceings..or if I'm tired ..its why as you read ph you find lot of small words left out..I literally dont see them..autocorrect and word suggest and voice technology helps me a lot..
This is a fairly common thing actually. There's a movie called The King's Speech where the king of England had a speech impediment and the more he worried about it the worse it got, but it became milder when he was chatting with his children or when he had headphones on so he couldn't hear himself talking. It's probably a trait everyone has to some extent, I know when I play video games there's a point where I'm into it and doing very well, but if I get more excited than that I get nervous and can't concentrate and my performance declines.
It's possible to design a mechanical (or electrical) system which suffers the same problem. Stability is obtained with a negative feedback loop. But if you weight some of the control parameters incorrectly, the resulting output may oscillate (isn't stable), or takes too long to stabilize (gives the wrong output for a while before it becomes right). There's a sweet spot in between which is reasonably stable. If it happens with something you make conscious decisions about (e.g. financial planning), then it's easy to learn to home in on the sweet spot. But for unconscious behaviors, you're pretty much stuck with it and have to come up with tricks to get around it (e.g. people who stutter often have no problem singing, presumably because singing doesn't require you to decide the pitch and rhythm of what you're saying).
It's a pain the tuchas, isn't it?
I leave out words all the time, and have word retrieval issues, without the browser spellchecker this would be completely mangled too. I also read and edited this three times to post it.
I'm not as bad as my maternal nanny, I spent most of my youth "Ding" which was the dog's name. Still she carefully cultivated tomatoes for decades keeping seeds from the best and managing the different varietals until she got what she wanted.
You don't have to be good with finding the right words or getting them on paper to be extraordinary.
I've known other people with these problems. The spinning letters thing was related to dyslexia (forgot what it was called). The other stuff could be large variety of things, but I can tell you for sure there are others out there with the problem in various forms and strengths. That probably doesn't really give any comfort, but ... well, hang in there?
Makaira at 1:35AM, April 9, 2019
Speaking for personal experience, I'm pretty sure the "brain afraid that it's not the right answer" stems from overly critical authority figures (parents, teachers, bosses, etc) or being bullied when you were a child. I suffered from the problem when I was younger (took me decades to overcome it enough to become reasonably socially functional). And thinking back to my childhood I'm pretty sure I know exactly why I became like that (I was bullied). I actually got to see it happening when my workplace hosted a bunch of high school kids for confidence-building activities. In the Q&A part of the activity, every time one of the unpopular kids started to give the right answer, one of the popular attractive kids would bully them to shut them down. "Why are you answering when you never know the right answer?" I really wish schools and teachers wold do more to stop this, because it's extremely damaging to kids' psyche. Stupid stuff like playing games without keeping score doesn't help.
Nowhereman10 at 4:56PM, April 8, 2019
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Gator Dragon at 3:07PM, April 8, 2019
I follow a guy on YouTube called Dave Ramsey, he's big into finance and how to conquer debt. One of the things he talks about is "Analysis Paralysis" where people get so afraid of making the wrong choice that they don't make any choice at all and panic because they're too afraid until it's too late to make any choice, and not choosing becomes their choice instead! It happens to a lot of people and I've had it happen to me before when trying to get bank loans and stuff. You're not alone in the slightest, I actually had this happen to me today when I was deciding if I could afford a phone payment before my car payment or if I had to wait! I haven't made either payment yet because of it, and try to pay my bills like a week early just incase so I have time to decide!
rmccool at 10:57AM, April 8, 2019
This is a always thing.ig gets worse with some fonts and spaceings..or if I'm tired ..its why as you read ph you find lot of small words left out..I literally dont see them..autocorrect and word suggest and voice technology helps me a lot..
felonimayhem at 9:40AM, April 8, 2019
This is a fairly common thing actually. There's a movie called The King's Speech where the king of England had a speech impediment and the more he worried about it the worse it got, but it became milder when he was chatting with his children or when he had headphones on so he couldn't hear himself talking. It's probably a trait everyone has to some extent, I know when I play video games there's a point where I'm into it and doing very well, but if I get more excited than that I get nervous and can't concentrate and my performance declines.
Makaira at 1:16AM, April 9, 2019
It's possible to design a mechanical (or electrical) system which suffers the same problem. Stability is obtained with a negative feedback loop. But if you weight some of the control parameters incorrectly, the resulting output may oscillate (isn't stable), or takes too long to stabilize (gives the wrong output for a while before it becomes right). There's a sweet spot in between which is reasonably stable. If it happens with something you make conscious decisions about (e.g. financial planning), then it's easy to learn to home in on the sweet spot. But for unconscious behaviors, you're pretty much stuck with it and have to come up with tricks to get around it (e.g. people who stutter often have no problem singing, presumably because singing doesn't require you to decide the pitch and rhythm of what you're saying).
DarkAgeCat at 7:37AM, April 8, 2019
It's a pain the tuchas, isn't it? I leave out words all the time, and have word retrieval issues, without the browser spellchecker this would be completely mangled too. I also read and edited this three times to post it. I'm not as bad as my maternal nanny, I spent most of my youth "Ding" which was the dog's name. Still she carefully cultivated tomatoes for decades keeping seeds from the best and managing the different varietals until she got what she wanted. You don't have to be good with finding the right words or getting them on paper to be extraordinary.
Mr Kaos at 6:38AM, April 8, 2019
i hope that you will manage this.
_Timelord_ at 8:57PM, April 7, 2019
I've known other people with these problems. The spinning letters thing was related to dyslexia (forgot what it was called). The other stuff could be large variety of things, but I can tell you for sure there are others out there with the problem in various forms and strengths. That probably doesn't really give any comfort, but ... well, hang in there?