Well, you're failure at the original dictionary game was a
beastly issue, at least one that caused enough fustration to have you post.
You're wondering if perhaps you have a deficiency, and wish someone would aid you in your progress.
Perhaps if someone can aid you in the learning process, much as a cosigner aids one in the loaning process, you can abandon the apellation of having failed somehow.
Yes, still a strech, but hey.
The most common pattern I've seen regarding the dictionary game, at least as posted on the forums, is that the person starts off with great success, and then the inner mind says, "Go away, this is boring, stop stressing me out," and refuses to play. That's one of the reasons Paul Scheele warns on the tapes not to play the game unless you are willing to see it as a game, not as a "test."
If it is a test, it's like a pre-test. The kind of test the teacher gives at the beginning of the year saying, "I'm testing you all so that I know what it is I'll be teaching, and in how much depth." The dictionary is one of those books that is so well organized you can benifit from it amazingly without ever having to make a mind-map of it, as long as you remember alphabetical order. Don't worry of spontanious activation of the dictionary doesn't ever happen.
