The Bump

I have been taking some classes in the recent few weeks and noticed something over the weekend ! A bump on the finger of my right hand :-)

As a child and a student, I always had a big bump on the finger which came in contact with the pen/pencil. I'm sure you did too as a child/student - so did most of my friends :-) We used to compete who gets a bigger one too! Believe that?

I felt very nostalgic and funny to see it swell back up to it's original spot after all these years - I was thinking how old habits die hard - of holding the pen in the exact same way, of keeping it at the same angle :-)

It also brought to me the kind of student I was! How your studying patterns, the way you interpret what is taught to you is embedded deep within was something I noticed.

I have this weird way of spacing out sometimes in between a class - things that the lecturer says links to something else and I wander off for a bit! I did the same very thing even during my school days...and now after all this time!

Try it - when you go back to some rigorous studying or exam taking, you'll notice how you rely on your old techniques and learning patterns to assimilate the information given to you...it is probably very rare that you can change those very techniques totally.

Maybe you could modify or enhance them for an optimal result(s) but you usually base most of it on the old traits.

Yes? No? What?

Tell me when you get that bump on your thumb the next time...