Recovering Your Work
You know how it is when you’re dyslexic or dyspraxic or have ADHD: something kind of goes wrong and you lose the plot.
All your work down the drain. Irretrievable.
That happened to one of my students who was studying game design. There was some glitch in the game’s program and his lecturer told him to delete the program, then reinstall it.
He was in panic. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task and not knowing where any of the information was. He had to redo everything and he was out of time.
Familiar? Sadly it happens a lot.
So what do you DO??
Take a deep breath.
Try to calm down.
And get a BIG piece of paper and a few pens.
Make a picture of the structure you need to fill. For him it was a map of the game. Then jot down everything you can remember.
Don’t worry yet about anything you have forgotten.
Once you make a picture to look at, that relieves your working memory.
Once you break the task down, that relieves stress and makes you more efficient.
Dyslexic? Dyspraxic? ADHD? ASD, or any combination of the above? We all have challenges with working memory and processing.
The keys to success are: Make a visual map, so you don’t have to hold it in your mind. Break the task down and tackle one piece at a time to reduce stress.
If you want to know how to apply this to your problem drop in to meet us.
