I started well on absorbing the content by Andrew Keen by just sitting against my wall on my bed. I should have known that the bed would be my failing error. Soon after the third page did I start to drift off and zone out. Then I would be thinking in my head of future plans or things that I had to do. Next thing I know, I'm laying down on my bed trying to get back in the paragraph I reread a couple times over. My body starts moving from leg swinging to rolling my neck around. Further along in the chapter do I zone out so much that the next thing I know I'm waking up from my alarm set to end this experiment. The thing about reading print offs is that I zone out to easily, and it makes it harder to finish. It's even harder when there is no noise to give me an alert sense because then I just end up making the noise in my head to occupy myself. If not then my brain takes an unexpected vacation leave.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Forty Minutes of Silence
I started well on absorbing the content by Andrew Keen by just sitting against my wall on my bed. I should have known that the bed would be my failing error. Soon after the third page did I start to drift off and zone out. Then I would be thinking in my head of future plans or things that I had to do. Next thing I know, I'm laying down on my bed trying to get back in the paragraph I reread a couple times over. My body starts moving from leg swinging to rolling my neck around. Further along in the chapter do I zone out so much that the next thing I know I'm waking up from my alarm set to end this experiment. The thing about reading print offs is that I zone out to easily, and it makes it harder to finish. It's even harder when there is no noise to give me an alert sense because then I just end up making the noise in my head to occupy myself. If not then my brain takes an unexpected vacation leave.
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Nice post. I like the picture you chose and how you have it inset into your post. Sounds like a "sleeping person" picture is definitely a good summary of how this experiment went for you. It's interesting that you find it harder to read print-outs and read in silence... almost like you need distractions of some kind in order to focus? That is so opposite from some of your classmates' reactions.
ReplyDeleteNext time, you could try giving a quick one- or two-sentence intro to your post so it would be a bit more clear what you were reading, why you had an alarm set, etc. I showed some blogs in the last class that did this well.