I wish I drank coffee

[hils]

One of my biggest problems is my inability to concentrate on training courses, no matter how interesting they are.

This is a really interesting and useful course but I just can't handle sitting and listening to someone talk for hours at a time. I just wind up nodding off, which is bad.

Am currently drinking gallons of tea and it's not helping.

Someone poke me with a stick

Comments

[drusplace.livejournal.com]

:poke: Did that help any?

[hils.livejournal.com]

Heh! Yes :)

[tariel22.livejournal.com]

OMG, I am the same way! I swear I fall asleep at every workshop I attend. I avoid them if I can, but my job has just been changed to include some brand new responsibilities, so my boss has been signing me up right and left. I'm dreading them all!

*pokes you* :)

[hils.livejournal.com]

I think some peoples brains are just geared to a more practical way of learning. If we were actually doing hands-on stuff I would be fine

I'll be sure to give you a virtual poking when you go on your workshops ;)

[tariel22.livejournal.com]

I agree. I do great when there's an interactive component, but talking heads are deadly. Zzzzz.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we did some practical work first thing this morning and that was great. Now it's back to listening and I am having to stimulate my brain with LJ ;)

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

I find the bottled water is usually more help than the caffeinated drinks (tea or coffee) on training courses, especially at this time of year...

[hils.livejournal.com]

Really? I'll have to try that

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty crappy training course if someone is only droning on and now getting you involved or using a teaching style that suits everyone....

You would NEVER be bored in one of my lessons! LOL!!!! :)

[hils.livejournal.com]

YAY!!! Come teach me stuff! LOL!

Nah, it's an unusual situation because I am doing an accelerated version of a Hardware course which condenses 10 days of training into 5. Sadly there just isn't the time to have us doing practical work

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Stick me in front of a keyboard and tell me what to do and I can learn just about anything. Sit me in a room, show me a PowerPoint presentation and talk at me, and I'll be asleep before you've got past the first slide.

This is also, I suspect, why I did not shine academically.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I wasn't so bad when I was at school. It seems to be worse as I'm getting older