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What It Takes To Change Your Brain's Pattern After Age 25
This is an interesting piece by Vivian Giang."In most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."That quote was made famous by Harvard psychologist William James in his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology, and is believed to be the first time modern psychology introduced the idea that one's personality becomes fixed after a certain age.More than a century since Jame... Read more…
How the Brain Anticipates
We're coming back from Camanche Hills Sporting Clays after three days of coaching and we're looking forward to going to the bay to fish for a couple of days.While in California, I read a recent study on how the brain is constantly anticipating ahead of where we are. This really got my attention. We talk about the anticipation circuit, and all of a sudden a study pops up on how the brain anticipates. I put a really good... Read more…
Revelation!
Accessing the Filler in Your BrainI just read a recent study about the brain is constantly anticipating ahead of where we are. It will compensate for tiny differences in timing input and output to make things synchronous - even though they are not.For example, I can be standing next to you and be dribbling a basketball. And as I walk away from it, due to the difference in the speed of sound and light, at 100-110 feet t... Read more…
Building Filler
This brings a new face to practice. Rather than trying to memorize the move, you train the move and build filler.So when you perform, if you are trying to remember what to do, you are not using filler. In fact, you're programming bad filler.Thinking while performing is a distraction. I understand that more fully now than ever.Building Filler in Your FundamentalsSo as you go through the practice, it's like our journey t... Read more…
The Subconscious Anticipation Circuit
A Lesson From the Moving SidewalkWe're in the airport today leaving for Fort Myers, Florida. After we got through security and walked to the moving sidewalks, we were chatting away. And as we took the first step onto the moving sidewalk, I almost fell forward!My weight automatically shifted 25 percent forward at the exact moment my foot touched the sidewalk... but it was not loving! It's so hard to tell if those things... Read more…
