Hello again!
Don’t be afraid. I
recovered from the joy I was feeling at the success that my sisters and I had
while watching Only Connect last week.
There will not be bragging herein.
Because we did terribly this past week.
Only two questions right. (In
case you just NEED to know: the lion question in round two where C.V./Curriculum
Vitae was the answer and the first satnav question in the missing vowel round.)
This week, before I’d watched Only Connect, I’d seen
on Twitter that the show is nearing the episodes where the questions will begin
to get harder. This was the first week where
two teams that had previously lost were coming together to determine which
should stay. Even the team who lost in
this episode performed well when compared to the (pathetic) standard which we’d
set while sitting on our couch. It does make
you feel a bit better about having a difficult time with the answers when
Richard Osman (a host of a different quiz, just so you know) tweets about the
show calling it the “Ultimate Hell Week” of quizzes (until he then tweets that
he was doing great on that episode’s clues).
The benefit, I think, of the way that Only Connect is
set up is that a sense of failure doesn’t overwhelm you as much as it might if
you don’t get a single question on Jeopardy!. The two contributing factors to that, at
least for me, are your time and your team.
Yes, your time to get the connection on Only Connect is limited,
but you aren’t forced to move quicker because you are worried that your
competitor will get it before you will.
When you’re putting your mind fully to the task, you will get it if you
know the information or not if not. It’s
also harder to feel so completely beaten when you’ve put together your
knowledge with others to try and find the connections between the clues. A wider base of knowledge is going to exist
between three people than within one person (even when, in the case of my
sisters and I, large amounts of life experience overlap).
I mean, do what you will with that. I’m likely looking too hard for some deep
meanings in this but it makes sense and applies to other situations, right?
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