How Can I Gain Common Sense and Become Capable of Doing the Simplest Things?

Question

When it comes to comprehending complex subjects and mastering difficult topics, taking tests, etc. (anything mental) I am okay. But when it comes to anything mechanical - and I mean the SIMPLEST things, I'm at a loss. I was unable to use a can opener until I was 14. Everyone who taught me how to use a pill cutter successfully used it - when I tried to do it, following their directions, I fxcked it up and now it's broken. I suck at high school science labs because I am SO slow to figure out how to use the tools/equipment. I cannot use a compass, protractor, anything that simple! I guess I just have no manual dexterity or common sense. How can I improve in these areas of weakness, because I can't function in life unless I am actually capable of doing simple tasks like this.

Answer 1

There are numerous very subtle neurological disorders that most of us suffer in big or small ways. For me, it was an inability to remember, right in the middle of the process, what the sequence of body movements were for walking down a flight of stairs! I thought I had a brain tumor. Nope. Some of these little glitches we just have to learn to live with and how to compensate for. But, MOST of them are readily done away with by simply recognizing that they happen. Speak with a physician about this to get a full assessment. For now, though, I'm a little familiar with what's happening in your situation. It's best described as being a tad out of focus. The signal that your mind is sending to your arms and hands and legs is fuzzy. Just a tad, mind you. So, try this: In private, with only dramatic candlight, dance slowly without music, except that which is in your mind, in front of a full-length mirror. Very slowly. Watch your every movement in the mirror. Move every part of your body one at a time in isloation from the rest and focus on those movements only. Watch and focus. This helps to improve your mind-body coordination a lot, just like hand-eye coordination experience. Also, for me, all I had to do to get the whole problem like you've described to GO AWAY, was to slow way down. Little tasks speed back up eventually. But, for just a couple of weeks, slow everything down with your hands. I used to slam out a pot of Mr. Coffee and spill everything, knock everything over, fight everytime trying to get the dang basket to fit back on the swivel after washing it and going insane frustrated with it that I just stopped one day and pretended that I was teaching the procedure to a child. I got very methodical, watched EXACTLY where my hands were, and something in my brain just GOT IT IN FOCUS! EEEEhaaa. Dance in front of that mirror and slow down and observe the individual movements of manual tasks. I even have enough grace these days to have some pretty nails. I used to beat my hands up with such chaotic hand control that they were always bashed up. No more. Good luck.

Answer 2

you have to take an interest and try to apply knowledge practically.

what good is math / science / whatever if you cant apply them to real world applications?

for example, do you have any idea how a toilet's flushing mechanism works? if no, why not take the top off the tank of the nearest toilet, and see if you can't figure out how it works? what triggers what, and to what effect? this kind of step-by-step approach, action and reaction, is the KEY to common sense.

it's common sense that you dont put your hand on a burner on your stove. why not? because the burner has become hot. if you put your hand on it, what will happen? the heat will cause your flesh to burn. the burn will cause your nerves to detect pain. this will cause you to be in pain.

basically, nothing happens for no reason. determining what causes what is crucial to common sense thinking and problem solving.

Answer 3

Einstein had similar problems, so you are in good company. I work with a kid who is an honors student in Pharmocology, but has trouble with simple tasks. Just get used to it and make a lot of monety

Answer 4

Sounds like you spend more time getting nervous at what you are going to embark on and less on being focused on what you are doing. Pay attention to your task at hand and you can always pray when you get nervous. God is waaaaayyy mor powerful than us.

Answer 5

God would not have an ego. he's a loving God. that is why He supplies all and sundry a modern. The present is to have a relationship with Him and to be waiting to love Him back. The present is likewise to have eternal existence. He loves you no matter in case you like it or not. a modern is something which you're able to settle for hence as to get carry of it. you look like an remarkable guy or woman and it would not take extremely some attempt to settle for His present. merely think of approximately in case you lived in this earth for one hundred years. That sounds like a protracted time. even with the undeniable fact that that is not on an identical time as long because it takes to blink your eyes in case you evaluate it to how long term would be when you circulate away this earth. You do good works, yet once you had God with you, merely think of approximately how plenty greater beneficial good works you would be waiting to do. nutrition for thought.

Answer 6

sorry, some people are not good at those things. quit trying immediately and hire them done. good luck with that.

Answer 7

take your time, think about it before you do it...you either have common sense or you don't..people vary