Spend your life on the playground” For me the concept of playground includes the following: physical activity, lots of physical activity, a wide variety of physical activity and movement, my socialization in part, girlfriends, boyfriends, balls of various shapes and sizes, slides, merry go rounds, swings, monkey bars, jump rope, Jacks, hopscotch, gaiety, laughter, Inventing… Continue reading Spend your life on the playground
Month: August 2012
Stephen Jepson says: “quit hungry for the experience”
head> Stephen Jepson says: “quit hungry for the experience” If you want to learn something physical that is difficult; practice often and quit hungry for the experience. Practice for brief periods of time. Do not practice when you are tired and when you begin to make mistakes quit your practice. Imagine a golden thread fastened… Continue reading Stephen Jepson says: “quit hungry for the experience”
Keeping the brain and body functioning well
Keeping the brain and body functioning well Research indicates that continued engagement in challenging mental activities keeps the brain performing well. My path is to be constantly learning new complex physical things (many would regard what I do as playing); at age 72 I am learning to fly an airplane and juggle clubs. For me… Continue reading Keeping the brain and body functioning well
Learning to do complicated physical things
Learning to do complicated physical things I deem myself to be a learning theorist inasmuch as I have studied how to share in an efficient and effective way what is in my noggin and body with someone else’s head and body. Historically I have been quite successful in these sharings. By some reckoning achieving remarkable… Continue reading Learning to do complicated physical things