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Wisdom Through Failure
Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places - a lot of times through failure!When you combine wisdom with optimism, you can get the perfect storm of rapid skill development because you finally realize that failing is the key that opens the door to doing something better and better. Optimism comes from two things: faith that there is a God, and a willingness to walk through life without knowing where you mi... Read more…
Three Myths of Skill-Building
In studying skill-building we have come across something that we think you will find interesting as we did. The Three Myths of Skill-Building "Skill is Genetic.""She is a natural." "He was just born with a natural ability that few possess." While being tall can be an advantage in playing basketball or first base in baseball or playing tennis, the same advantage is not there as a gymnast or shortsto... Read more…
The Value of Practice and Training
The true value of practice and training is that they allow you to train your brain to anticipate farther and farther into the future. Repetition begins the process and detailed correction allows for it to improve. The most skillful person in the room is the one who, through experience, can anticipate farther in front of what is happening than anyone else in the room. Read more…
Where did July go?
Wow, where did July go? We got to spend some time at the bay house over the 4th of July, but the winds were so high that we didn’t even get the boat out of the stall. We did have the right West winds for some good crab catching, so all was good there. July also brought us going to a new club for us on Cape Cod. Thanks, Kevin York for inviting us to come up there, and thanks to Frank Sabo for a fabulous dinner at... Read more…
You Live in the Past!
You don’t know this because your brain lies to you and then covers up the lies, which is a good thing. If your brain didn’t fudge reality, you wouldn’t be able to hit a baseball, drive a car, or even carry on a conversation. It takes about 80 milliseconds for the brain to generate consciousness, to take the information flowing in and construct a model of reality from moment to moment. Everything you think is ha... Read more…
