Is there a limit to one's learning capacity?

Just came across an article of the above title on Neuroscience topic on the limits of learning.

I remembered my primary school Chinese teacher used to write 4 words in my autobiography book, "学如海涯". (There's no limits to the horizon of learning).

It is true, that there's no end to learning.

Although, There are times, i feel so despair because i simple can't a new trick right. But eventually, i got through.

I have subjects, like Economics and English language, which i love to fail in school, i am still struggling with them.
I have seen examples in the recent classes i attend, that class, consisted of students age ranged from 16 to 80+. Imagine the teacher's agony, he have to style his materials and speech that it can be understood by his listeners. As a teacher, whom had taught with a class ranged from 8 to 14 years old, i already finding it already challenging, imagine a BIGGER age gap.

Coming back to the topic, this class i attended, the topics are fairly easy to understand, straight forward. The only problem is our exams, we must score 99 to 100%, yes, that means we not just understand 100% of what is taught, and also to regurgitate all of them verbally, and physically in the exams. This had challenged many of my classmates, about 30% of us took the exams in the end. I even heard, many deferred the exams for more than once, just want to be sure they are to pass the exams. One of them, re-attended the same classes for more than 3 times, the last time i met this person, he is still re-attending the class, still struggling to remember all the things, but the more this person attend, he got a little better, just a little.

I guess this is how our brain works. Is the psychology. Personally, on younger days, I always feel there's a limit to learning, despite teacher's 4 words reminding that i was wrong.
When i attending high school, i realized i could not absorb as fast and well as i did in earlier years. I starting to do badly for my physics, one of my better science subjects. I was so much convinced by my belief. And proceed to University, my good mathematics subject started to fail me, too, proving it better to me.

Now with this classmate who attended the class so many times, i was slapped my the belief i have was wrong. It is not there's a limit to our brains, it is time that forces us to surrender. We are given a very short time to learn and excel, It is the ability to absorb the information and applying the information in a short time restricts us.

If given time, nothing cannot be learnt.

So now, when i see my students struggling, i simply tell them to slow down, cool down, not to be so frustrated over things they could not understand ... at the moment.
However, we are in the society that does not wait for slow learners.
Perhaps, this is the biggest challenge as a educators nowadays.

Jane
Night Desperato Project

Raise money online - Is it for real?

After removing myself from my job, i am down to nothing, no income. After all the promising, now, husband is now forcing me to live with the in-law, which obviously, frankly speaking, after that horrific night 5 years ago. Experience says i should not live with her, and not in her house.

What happened 5 years ago?
I was chased out from my own house by my mother-in-law. For some reasons, i managed to go back after much persuasion, and she had moved out of my house months after.

So, can God tell me a reason why i should live with her in her house?

I am given a choice to stay in my house. MONEY.
I am determined to find a way to earn money. online. but, i just can't get a quick result. 
I guess i am really weak and useless, like husband and my previous boss think of me. But i am still determine to prove them wrong, not just 2 of all, but all the people who says i am a piece of useless junk, my life should be terminated. Yes, nasty words, so imagine my level of depression after dwelling in these words.

During my ventures, i found a interesting site:



I read on-going cases, success stories that people request funding, donations to be exact.
I was amazed about how it works. The same question goes, do people really just donate just like that??? Wow.
How i wish i can do the same! But how far can i go?

Why don't just one of you readers start clicking on those banners i put here and sign up for free, and prove it to me, and i am not even asking you to donate money to me? Just a click will do, please?

Jane
Night Desperato Project/

Positive Thinking

The Power of positive thinking must not be underestimated.

That's how our brains works, the energy of these positive thinking gives you the energy to continue on something. On top of that, it improves not just mental health but also physically as well.

These are few ways you may try:

1. Meditation
2. Writing
3. Play

In short, it is simply to find pleasure in things you do.

Notes taken from:
Positive Thinking at Work Place



You know what, i do not feel like writing much on this article, that's why it is so short.
The strangest, thing about the above article here is that.
I have a queue of documents to write review and if have to, promote it.
And yet, by the time for me to write this one, I was feeling really really down and out.
In the end, this short article above had been postponed for more than a week.
Fortunately, i do not have to pay a penalty for delaying this like empower network last time.

For 3 whole weeks, i had been knocked out physically and emotionally in work, at home, everywhere, by events, that put me in despair.

I couldn't get a simple document right, i kept making my boss angry. And i really want to leave, but i couldn't leave because of financial issue. Yes, 720 is not much, i can find better pay in other places.
"But it pays a bill, why not?" quoted from Les Miserables
At least i am not like those Vietnamese girls, using their beauty and their sweet voice, just one request, they received $400 in cold hard cash, sometimes best, just a phone call, $400 goes straight into their account when they are overseas, and it definitely takes less than 1 hours!
I have to slough 45 hours to get the same amount!!
My boss, i feel that, they think i cannot afford to leave because of my heavy financial burden, just keep pressing as if i was made of clay. Yes, i am made of mud, i'm clay, but one day, this clay will dry up, and hardened.
That's why when the Malaysian Girl Blogger recently blogs about how poor thing Singaporean girls are, how easy and rich her life was, ya, i ENVY and i AGREED! Despite the number of flames this blogger got, i must say these Singaporean flamers had not seen and experienced the other side of  Singapore, my side.

At home, housework had been delayed for years, and i had been doing 7 days worth of work within 1 or 2 days (the weekends). And someone actually asked me personally, and on twitter, what do i do during weekends when i am away from my desk job. I do not believe it nobody understands the importance of house keeping. Oh yes, because they do not need to do everything themselves. And they do not have kids who mess it up by many means as soon as you clean up. In fact, the best time to clean up is when all of them are asleep, but once just one, just one, wakes, i am back in Square One! Tell you, it is mission impossible. And everybody is telling me, Don't give up! Press on! Your life will be better! SIGH... I can only say, i will try period.

At Love, is horribly confusing, i do not know whether my beloved husband is with me or just playing along.
Hey boy! I know when one does grocery for me in the middle of night, one is meeting someone out there, and now, instead of direct confronting, the irritating girl,  i simply playing prank calls to that girl every night, hoping to remind her, how irritating she is. So stop telling me there's no frozen/sub-frozen food in the supermarket. L-O-L,  now i can imagine, even my readers here are laughing at the excuse! It is because you don't want to buy it so it will spoil because you are not heading straight home after grocery shopping, giving you away. And stopping giving excuses why i cannot do grocery shopping with you in the middle of the night too, just because you want to meet your loving young leech.
So stop visiting those places, maybe i will forgive you, else, see you in hell.
So please, girls, stop thinking he's rich and nice, he's much poorer than you.
At least you just open mouth, and even sleep with any man, you get your $400 - $1000, in my previous few paragraphs ago.
I can't even squeeze a $500 out of him to pay my grocery bills a month, so you think about it, can you get a $500 out of him by just pouring him a glass a beer!

So much so for positive thinking! A friend of mine whom i know this June told everyone online, that he have to block all negative thinking people on his face-book, i wonder he blocked me, my life and my head is FULL of them!

Each day passes, when i walked along the streets going work, going school, coming home, even every night i will wake up in the middle of sleep, just couldn't help it to shed tears. Just as lonely the streets are, this world is, no one comes up to comfort. I, of course, not surprised because even anyone do, they will be turned away, so, no one does this anymore. It is a torture to face everything, and everything looks like a failure. i do not know how to console myself, i do not know how not to make my boss angry, i do not know how to avoid fear of getting sacked everyday. I look at my children, i see their homework, test results, phone calls of concern from their teachers, i do not how to face myself, what a bad mother, no money to pay for their tuition, so stupid, don't know how to teach them, discipline them, let them play all day, all night, they didn't even bother to revise homework, they don't realize the importance. Husband comes back, messy house, his gadgets spoil by children, i am so ignorant, and couldn't control their mischief. So, positive thinking? Try me. When your life is FULL of downs. Try.

Let me know whether it works:
First, LOOK DOWN... there are more miserable people out there who have no help and support at all, not even a written or spoken sentence.
Second, THINK how LUCKY you are, that you can access to blogs, or your face-book, or even twitter, with endless, boundless support groups, in every way. I would thought, people will let me die if i just leave a suicide message, in the end, i gets encouragement even from stranger whom i might just added as friend in less than an hour.
Third, CONTRIBUTE BACK to the support groups you receive from, be it face-book, be it twitter, or even streets. See someone crying silently on the streets, approach them, offer them a tissue. See cases like me, words of console help, and please, for God's sake, use your empathy.

Signing out
Jane
Night Desperato Project.