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May. 28th, 2010 10:10 amI was reading an article a while ago about sensory input and how we process information. It appears there's some truth in the idea that people tend to favour certain forms of input over others - people who say things like "Oh, I'm a very visual person" might actually not be talking total nonsense, although it's obviously a great deal more complex than that.
It got me thinking about how I acquire and process information. I mostly do this through reading - I like my books the way I like my women: cheap and as thick as possible - and I do tend to read a lot. On the other hand, the she-David likes things like art and 'proper' cinema, which often do little for me. I've found my boredon threshold for art galleries is almost precisely one hour; when I walk in I can examine exquisite line and sumptuous mix of colour with admiration and interest, but an hour later I'm stalking irritably round glancing at yet more priceless works of art muttering "Picture...picture...picture...another picture...yet another frigging picture...", at which point it's usually best for me to go and have a sit down and a cup of tea. As for cinema, I like it as throwaway entertainment, but I've never sought out or relished 'improving' films, which from experience are usually in Estonian, in Black and White, and have no topless girls or explosions in them.
It makes me wonder if reading is in some ways more of an auditory method of information processing - I certainly 'hear' myself speaking the words I'm reading at the same time, and so I'm not sure it really counts as a visual medium for me.
So, seeing as it's Friday and I don't expect anyone is doing any work, that's the topic for today. How so you access and process information? Are you a visual person? An auditory one? What?
It got me thinking about how I acquire and process information. I mostly do this through reading - I like my books the way I like my women: cheap and as thick as possible - and I do tend to read a lot. On the other hand, the she-David likes things like art and 'proper' cinema, which often do little for me. I've found my boredon threshold for art galleries is almost precisely one hour; when I walk in I can examine exquisite line and sumptuous mix of colour with admiration and interest, but an hour later I'm stalking irritably round glancing at yet more priceless works of art muttering "Picture...picture...picture...another picture...yet another frigging picture...", at which point it's usually best for me to go and have a sit down and a cup of tea. As for cinema, I like it as throwaway entertainment, but I've never sought out or relished 'improving' films, which from experience are usually in Estonian, in Black and White, and have no topless girls or explosions in them.
It makes me wonder if reading is in some ways more of an auditory method of information processing - I certainly 'hear' myself speaking the words I'm reading at the same time, and so I'm not sure it really counts as a visual medium for me.
So, seeing as it's Friday and I don't expect anyone is doing any work, that's the topic for today. How so you access and process information? Are you a visual person? An auditory one? What?
