Learning has always been easy for me, but I wouldn't boast of it 100% of the time. There have been three different occasions where I found it difficult to learn a subject or a skill. For some reason my brain just seems to block and in two of the three times I forced myself to learn. What took others weeks or months to learn was taking me forever and I wasn't happy with it. It started in secondary school when I chose to be in the science class. I knew Art wasn't for me, I mean I couldn't stand literature. I also knew social science wasn't for me because I had always been terrible at business studies from my junior secondary school and my sheets were never balanced in accounting. The only subject in social science I knew very well was economics. Every other main subject was French to me.
Now in the science class, I was good in all but one subject which happened to be physics. My failure in physics was a result of my fear for the teacher. We usually called him Mr Akatakpo… don't bother pronouncing it if you can't because he was as scary as his name was awkward. That man traumatized my childhood and would always find any means to punish any student. Although he only punished me twice, the fear of Mr Akatakpo alone was more than any punishment. But then again, school wasn't where my weakness in physics showed, it was when I had to write my SSCE examination. Physics made me write thrice because it was mandatory for me to pass it at that time. No matter how much I read and thought I knew, I just ended up failing woefully. Imagine scoring 97 in geography, 88 in chemistry, 76 in English and then 19 in physics during my Jamb examination.
When finally got a credit in physics where as scored A and B in other subjects I was so happy because that C was even more valuable to me than A. Entering the higher institution, I was sad to know that physics related courses will be my majors with at least 3 credit units. I did it for the 8 years I spent in school and in those 8 years gave me a lot of experiences in physics. To date I will never claim to know physics because I can't still tell why I failed it back then no matter how much I read it. It was the same when I learned graphics design, it took almost two years before I could come up with a design that my boss was proud of. Whereas, others understood it in months. Currently I have been learning different aspects of web development that had been taking ages, I just can't seem to wrap my head around it, but then again I know I would figure them out.
