Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan Experience #2259 - Thomas Campbell" video.

  1. I don't know if this is the same thing, but in my undergraduate days, I took way too many classes at the same time. My study method was to have my Linear Algebra laid out on the dining room table at one chair, my Structural Geology at another chair, my History of Modern Europe at another chair, then Modern Physics. I'd move from chair to chair as the night wore on, often 'til the Sun came up. If I hit a roadblock, I wouldn't instantly give up, but eventually I'd just move to the next chair. Frequently, by the time I sat in one place for a while, or hit a roadblock, I'd get another idea for that Linear Algebra proof. I've gone to bed MANY a time, obsessing over an intractable problem, and upon waking up the next day, a totally new strategy would occur to me. I never thought of it as psychic phenomenon. I just figured my subconscious just kept working on it, and the solutions would percolate up to my conscious mind, in some way. Dad was big on Sylva Mind Control, self-hypnosis, and accessing your alpha brainwave state. I'm a fragile person, with a relatively mild case of osteogenesis imperfecta, and I practiced self-hypnosis for pain remediation during many acute-pain periods of my life. Bring that heart rate and blood pressure down through a form of focused meditation and controlled breathing. I don't know if that had anything to do with my "sleep on it" strategy, or my "put it on the back burner, move on, and come back to it" strategy, but it got a pretty dumb guy all the way through a PhD program in mathematics.
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