Monday, November 7, 2011

Not sure about most people, but I find technology to be perplexing.  Though I use it all the time to remain connected with friends, for ease of communication and to research material, it still baffles me from time to time.  Suppose that might be due to my being a creative person who primarily uses the other side of my brain.

In the past, when something went wrong with a technological device, I’d get extremely frustrated because I hadn’t a clue how to fix the problem.  I’ve since managed to mitigate how upset technology difficulties make me. 

I’m a person who functions at a million miles an hour—while at rest—and when I get on a roll, watch out, lest you get rolled over.  As such, I embraced the speed with which technology could allow me to get things done.  But…when that same technology would malfunction, I’d become discombobulated. 

Unable to slow myself down enough to take a few deep breaths to problem solve something in which my brain wasn’t proficient—technology—I’d try to rush through a cure.  But as anyone who’s ever tried to tackle technology difficulties without being technologically gifted knows, attempting to rush through solving a that kind of problem is like trying to get molasses to pour through a tiny-holed sieve on a freezing cold day.

Then one day, the light bulb finally went on, me realizing that I needed to stop allowing technology to so perplex me.  Not saying it still doesn’t, from time to time.  It certainly does.  But now, whenever there’s a glitch with it, I slow things down so I’ll be better equipped to figure out how to solve the problem.  So far, this technique is working just fine.