Thread: What can I do to improve the quickness in which I understand things?

It takes me much longer to understand things than it does for other people at my job. It is getting really embarrassing when I have to keep asking the same questions in order to understand what it is I am supposed to be doing. I can see that a lot of people are also frustrated that I don't get it the first time. I have been in this job for almost a year, so I can't blame it on being new anymore.

I was in the top 5% of my high school class, and I had a 3.7 GPA in college. Why am I so dumb now? This is so frustrating!

You may be a visual learner having difficulty with auditory information. Try creating visualizations in your head as you listen to instructions. I of course don't know what you do, but if for example they tell you to do three things in order, create really vibrant visions in your head of each thing, placed on top of the visualized numbers 1, 2 and 3. The Verbalizing and Visualizing technique by Lindamood-Bell can help you with this problem. Good luck!!