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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fladian" data-source="post: 113147" data-attributes="member: 5833">In all honestly, I'm quite suprised about a more honest answer than I would have thought. I got second thoughts about the thread a little while after posting it. But I guess that those worries were never necessary.I can relate to that, Raiju. I didn't post my own behavior when it comes to such a behavior because I expected a lot of sudden similar ones. Which really isn't unlogical on a board like this... no offense, if any is taken.Like you, Raiju. My concentration and every other possible way of my body gets a little boost. My memory suddenly becomes extremely sharp - which is very surprising, since my memory usually works as a drain - and I (used to) ignore any pain that might appear in my arm.Three years ago, when I was about to graduate from Junior High we had to finish one last "assignment" (this is what I used as example) which we got three months of time to fininsh and we had to work in groups of two. Three was possible as well, but two people would be easier, or so was said. Anyway, this guy and I worked on it for those three months (2 - 4 hours a day) and it went quite well. As a matter of fact, we were praised by the teacher who kept an eye on this assignment, this project. Partly because he and I used some stuff the other classmates didn't use - partly because they didn't know how, and we only found it out by coincidence.Anyway during the last day, everyone was making their "finishing touches" except for a few guys. They didn't do much during those three months (see the example I used =)) and were falling apart mentally. The assignment would have a lot of influence over our graduating grade, which wasn't that high for them. Then again, it wasn't that high for me either <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> I barely graduated for that class. Pretty funny when you think of the fact that that class I used to be one of the worst in, became one of my best classes nowadays <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> Anyway, while everyone was making their "finishing touches" like I said and some already were printing the entire assignment out. The guy that was in my group and I looked at each other and decided to round it up in the next three hours as well. So we did. When an hour passed, he said that I should take a break, and he'd continue. When my break was over, we'd continue for one hour longer and then he would go home and I could print it out. Looked to me like a good idea, so I went to take a break. Perhaps not the best idea to do though when I look back at it.When I got back from my break (about 20 - 30 minutes) I saw a few grim faces of some of my classmates, including the guy from my group. I was told that some of the computers crashed, and some of the documents where we made it in were lost. Even the teacher was looking a bit confused, despite of having a lot of experience, he probably didn't have a clue what to do. He couldn't say: "I'll give you some more time to finish it", because we only had one week of lessons after this, and then the final exams would begin. Because of several reasons - which I can't remember most of, unfortunately - it was nearly impossible to make them at home. Anyway, after standing still with our "hands in the hair" for about ten minutes, we decided to go back to work.After a few minutes, the guy in my group said he went home. There was little he could do, while saying something like "Let the teacher find something about it. It's not like we're the only ones", though I had to admit he was right, I felt disappointed. A classmate of mine - or a friend, whichever you prefer - came sitting next to me, while he asked, "well, Ed, what are you going to do?" I looked at him, and said "I'm going to finish it" with a smile on my face. Funny when you think about the fact that he kept reminding me of those words every time we came in such a situation, especially because he has been a classmate of mine the following years as well. "When?" he asked after I said that I was going to finish it. I soflty answered with "today" while I went to work.Raiju's "i would finish the "task" in the most incredible rush you have ever saw" would be a very accurate way to describe in how I worked. Like I said, I become better in everything I do and I typed at least three times as fast as I typed normally, which was back then, a lot faster than I am able to type now. In a little more than two hours of time, I finished the project single handed and our 'group' ended up with a 8/10, which was one of the higher grades of the class. It saved me a bit from not graduating as well. I only knew back then that I won't work that fast, or hard, again in a very long time, because my arm was killing me for the next two - three months. That really didn't speed up the healing process.That was when I was graduating and probably the most clear moment when I noticed I worked better under pressure. I tried to work with the same speed without any pressure and clearly was unable to. When I learned I was enjoying the pressure, I kept asking and setting dead lines for stuff. The closer the dead line, the faster and more accurate I started to work. That went well for a year or so... after that, like I said in my first post, I "broke."I guess it helped last year, when I was working at an accountance office.When I look back at that time, I start to wonder. How on earth did I manage to do all that work with that much pain in my entire arm. But I learned, anything with big consequences made my motivated and as long as there is a (close) deadline, you could count on me.*looks away*I got no experience when it comes to that. It usually goes the other way for me. -_- I'm pretty good among girls, but I never got a long termed relationship. Luckily, like you, I'm pretty good at improvising as well, in every situation. To make it even better, the "improvisation" becomes better, more accurate and useful the more "under pressure" I am... I guess that might sound a tad weird.Exactly. I only used an example of a school assignment because I assumed that there were more students here than anything else.</blockquote>

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