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THE FIDGETY INTELLIGENCE NETWOK

While drafting my AOLs I've had various epiphanies ( as you do...) and this morning I woke up with a few ideas dancing in my head.
I'm an ideas person by nature. I'm the person in the group who will probably have the idea but when asked to explain it and write it down, it falls short of a few words. Initially I thought it may be my lack of confidence not having studied English as a first language or understanding the grammar.
So, of course, being asked to write or contextualize my own processes, or, listen to someone describing ideas with complex vocabulary gets me lost in a space of boredom where the sound of other people's voices seems to blend with colours and shapes until it disappears in the multi verse of my multiple intelligence network of nerve endings...You get the idea. I swear it's a thing. I do it to my husband all the time. He goes mental.
I'm used to express by doing...I never realised how much of that, is, in fact, ingrained in me. When I dance, I tell the story. It may have a conclusion. Or not. It might make sense. Or not. The point is that I go on a journey. It's the journey that matters most. The story telling is just the icing on the cake.

MAPP provides alternatives to show your work as opposed to just write of course, nevertheless I'm sure you're wandering why why on earth would I sign up for a course where I need to write my thoughts and make sense of them?...

Well, I also discovered that although I have a "fidgety" brain, it's that same dynamic that keeps me curious and thirsty for new challenges. The fact that I do not consider myself a great writer, it becomes a motivation to learn more, to learn how to do it and be better at it. It's in fact the act of learning itself that excites me. The more I learn, the more I want to learn.  It's the journey.