Hand-eye coordination is a major part of many careers

Hand-eye coordination is a major part of many careers.

Careers for Those With Good Hand-to-Eye Coordination
http://work.chron.com/careers-those-good-handtoeye-coordination-12465.html

Identifying your gifts

The path-breaking book The Dyslexic Advantage identifies 4 types of gifted minds that often (not always) have issues with dyslexia. The authors found many dyslexic people were actually highly gifted in certain areas that ironically, as a byproduct of their natural talents, caused reading issues.

Here is the website
http://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/

Four strengths (you could be more than one):

-3D spatial/material reasoning - can "turn" objects in their mind in 3D, often feel body movement as they do it

-Narrative reasoning - "storyteller", think in terms of stories and episodes, can use fragments of personal experience to figure things out, operate chiefly in episodic memory brain regions (stories, episodes) not declarative memory (raw facts)

-Dynamic strengths - ability to predict patterns (future or the past based on changing and incomplete information, drawn to fields that involve constant change

-Interconnected reasoning - big picture, holistic, can see how things are connected and fit together ex. Geography, Philosophy, Ecology, History, etc.

It is very important to identify if you fit one or more of these because it can help you choose careers and also choose teachers who are like you. It can also make you realize that something you may have thought was a weakness is actually due to a strength.

From my experience, I have been penalized on tests and even on the filling out of silly forms for missing a box here or a tiny point there, not dotting my I's and crossing my T's as they say, essentially missing small details. If you have a teacher who is extremely detail-oriented, they will often not see that you "got it" i.e. got the big picture and instead will nail you on every minor detail you missed. A detail-oriented teacher will also teach mostly details and test on mostly details increasing the likelihood of you missing details. If you are an "interconnected reasoning" person i.e. a big picture person like myself, this is totally against your grain and can cause a huge amount of frustration.

The same is true of narrative reasoning. I always enjoyed teachers who told a story. I remember in high school we had a history class that I routinely slept through during the last period of the day. There were no visuals or notes, just a guy talking with no stories and no notes. One day the teacher was absent and we had a sub. He came in and basically winged it, telling a story about the Cuban Missile Crisis. I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I remember thinking how the same subject--history--could appear horrible and then be so interesting based on how it was presented. There were no pictures, it was just a guy and a chalkboard telling a story.

Finding an environment that values your strengths is absolutely critical to your success.

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