100 Reasons to Juggle

A) Learning to Learn - Scaffolding

1 juggling continues learning endless. Feeling of always getting better, establishes baseline of where you

are at.

2 Something that can augment, in addition, to anything you do to improve training studying relaxing

3 Alternative eye or hand movement. Relaxes and trains brain Visual and tactile Bilateral Stimulation

Books and references by Dr Alan Goldberg Competitive Edge.com

Dr. D. Grand Brainspotting.com

4 Visual bilateral Stimulation, Recovery from concussion when ready

5 Eye-hand coordination

6 Develop subconscious movement, reinforces idea of coordinated, automatic movements

7 Posture, poise, balance for calm relaxed throwing

8 Shoulder rotator cuff, upper back gentle benign movements to reinforce better posture and mobility

9 Demonstrating Increased strengths and coordinated relaxation of antagonistic muscles. Amazing to

learn how coordinated strength is needed to release such a simple and slight movement. How the

muscles learn muscle memory to coordinate a simple movement that once was difficult.

10 Exercise, bending down, squatting, standing up after dropped balls. Benign exercise

11 Reading Increased peripheral development of eyes and brain lead to increased reading ability

12 ADHD Concentration and physical activity calms ADHD, works on simple yet satisfying tasks with

repetitive motions

13 Reduce stress with repetitive motion and practice of accepting dropped balls. Juggling and

implementation of concentration and focus help rewire or give break to stress

14 Teaches resilience by practicing the RUT principle, Accepting the Risk, and uncertainty of each throw

for small possibility of thrill of success

15 Teaches learning by planning small incremental, marginal gains in practice

16 Vygotsky, ZPD zone proximal development, scaffolding, planning smallest of successful steps.

17 Teaching math concept of simple yet similar concepts to understand concepts, realizing that juggling

can be written as Algebra. Juggling has rhythm and geometry and space Juggling Site swap, numeric

notation, Cambridge notation, represent patterns.

18 Teaches training through failure or Hard first, analyze mistakes or Resilience of success and muscle

memory

19 Invigorating, warm-up, mental break. Engages the brain like meditation with focus and concentration

and is mental break for previous activity, distracts with focus on juggling steps or plan, reduces self-talk

with resilience of persistence

20 Opposite is also true, go for success and completion reinforces muscle memory

Or go until failure demonstrating new goal and ultimate limit (Hard first principle by Joan H Vickers study

of quiet Eye and Decision Training

Using Tennis balls + ve cheap, nice size and weight force more purpose because –ve negative mistakes

are more cumbersome with ball rolling away. Collisions are highlighted

21 mind focus, meditative, clear vision, specific point to look at

22 Concentration, Meditative, watch thought of mind distract or continue to allow success

23 Collective effervescence John Mighton Jump Math. Where the group motivates and enhances the

individual experience.

24 Meditative watch tightness, balance or poise of body amend and breath, Watch the mind wander

distract from positive and clear focus

25 Practice, shows micro scaffolding through practice, Motivation and benefits of Practice through

Practice itself.

26 Prepares mind for other activities

27 Thrill, triumph, sheer joy of making successful “AhA” moments

28 Epiphany learning that the joy or positive feeling comes from continuation, Practice Begets Practice.

29 Confidence, reliance comes from seeing success after continual practice

30 Learn practice more often than bigger attempts. More follow up leads to results.

Practice Fast, frequently and Publicly (acknowledge results)

31 Team Chemistry versus social loafing (not caring what happens as result of your play) Team mental

Model, Edson Filho, Circus Arts. Right thing, Right time, Right reason

32 Discernment, Shortcut statement to describe result, no judgment, judgement, need time for brain to

make changes and gauge corrections

33 Realize paradox of subconscious. First need conscious objective goals later learned to be automatic

subconscious quick

34 Brain talk positive or negative don’t help automatic moves, need to be able to describe the motor

action and use that as self-talk. Paradoxes of Juggling by Michael Starseletsky

35 Make positive self-talk about specific motor movements (Help reduce Anxiety and Choking)

36 Teach Cooperative juggling, realize pass helps catch, opposite of loafing not caring, Part of the pass is

making sure the receiver is ready, being ready present. Or making adjustments.

37 Self Talk. Trying to bring it down to motor neural movement or just nothing but watching and letting

go (meditative) reduce anxiety

38 Coordinate mind and partner Right time, Right thing, Right reason

39 Brain in Synch, Partner passing Shared zone of optimal functioning

40 Flow, synergy, Team Mental Model Edson Filho Circus Arts. Activates similar parts of the brain

41 Self Esteem through practice, resilience from Small Marginal gains, reinforce with success

42 Feeling of Ambivalence, Throw and see, adjust. Books: I know one Thing, Expectation Hangover and

Meditation.Ee, all suggest” Let’s see what happens” attitude.

43 learn to love mistakes. Drop ball opportunity to make corrections Graceful coping with mistakes

44 Be Graceful with corrections, small changes make statements, discern, no judgement

45 Make mistakes inconsequential. Learning comes from doing. Small changes.

46 Work with what you can do. Make that a warm up. Routine of success repetition.

47 Juggling metaphor Japanese Proverb

“95 % is half way there. Last 5% hardest.” Most of learning is dropped ball. Success is practice.

48 Drop balls is teaching trial and error, learning, a route to routine. Success is repetition, practice

49 Meditative. Watch brain statements.

50 Meditation if you concentrate, breathe follows. For quick successive movements helps to hold

breathe, but for endurance helps to relax breathing.

51 Book The happy brain by Dean Burnett. 1994 (pages from this book3.47.67.93.121.161. 15 challenges

goal, feedback, success, see what happens, attempt, correct, trial ebb flow, humor, play, how to

succeed, ego. Ask questions. Styles vary, unique. Creative. Encourage. Unknown destiny)

Juggling, from root Joculai, Jest. To joke. Book The Happy Brain- enjoys weirdness, Novelty, heightened

reward

52 Metaphor juggling. Learn to learn, improve inevitably, apply to anything, always drop always learn.

Sir Drop a lot

53 Osmosis. Not feeling the progress but with repetition sudden realization that can be done.

Chinese tree Metaphor the Bamboo tree seed must be cared for watered for 6 years with no growth

then in 1 week the tree grows 20 feet.

54 Failure as success self-talk. Learning to see dropped balls as corrections.

55 Eyes are the window into the mind (Can see the concentration meditative effects or the tension in

the eyes. Corroborated by concept of Quiet Eye by Joan H Vickers. Calgary Prof.)

56 Juggling self-esteem self-talk self-coach watch the corrective statements you give to yourself

57 Power of play practice playfulness. Learning increases with play openness. Enjoyment

58 Make mistakes on purpose. Part of the process Faster, frequently, and public. Learn faster with

increased fail rate and more practice of course.

59 Plastic brain: brain makes grooves. Repeat successes. Build smallest of steps often

60 Metaphor. Learn to love mistakes improves juggling and life

Juggling Failure begins progress. Interestingly Every country has negative self-talk, can’t, mistake, failure

wrong,

Seek. Seek accurate tosses. Accurate information statement comment about tosses not catches

61 Sports, activities juggling good warmup or brain break for focus and concentration

62 Relaxed Concentration “Relaxed Concentration” through endurance concentration and focus

63 Jells with study small break distraction yet brain engaged

64 Improvement metaphor related to intensity, benefits of rest related to intensity of work out, study or

practice

65 Progress vs Results. Focus on Progress to continue brain growth, Results seem to shut brain down. I

got there Stop. Instead of progress. Steps along the way.

66 Persevere with the principles of progress Juggling teaches the perseverance of the discipline of

commitment. Regular practice. Small steps. Persevere.

67Meditation. Break. Focus on juggling away from other thoughts

68 Create joy from silly mischievous, magical activity. Joy when seemingly impossible aligns like parts of

the universe

69 Create Playfulness. Receptive to all things (Sign of Genius)

70 Keats Receptive to all things a sign of Genius. Be open to impossibilities of juggling

Metaphor. Each hand opens to catching what is passed to it. Let the mind be open as well to things

brought to it.

71 develops ambidexterity. Week becomes strong. Strong becomes refined. Rhythmic. Coordination

both sides brain. Weak side becomes better than strong side. Then reciprocate. New weak side needs to

progress

72 Good better best never let it rest. Till good is better and better best. Learn

progression

73 Learning comes from mistakes, fail often, fast, publicly. Helps rewire thoughts when realize

correction needed.

74Surgeons. Roger Crisfield. Juggled to keep brain awake warmed up, ready between surgeries. Study

shows that surgeons do better on tying knots when taking juggling breaks.

75 Combat or distraction juggling helps focus on main activity. Relate to coaching sports and teaching

priorities in plays

76 Passing and dropping. Helps coordinate getting back into play, what next move. Priority of focus

77 Joggling. Juggling with other activities. Adjusting passes for accuracy and alternative goals

78 Poise Adjustment from macro to micro movements subtle changes

79 Flow, teaches sense of flow in non-dangerous environment. Sense of timelessness

80 Mental distraction stress reduction break of current thoughts temporary escape.

81Unique, everyone plays where they are at. Creating artist of a sort of moving sculpture

82 Unique in so many ways. Learning path. Process, plateaus. Fast slow. High low. Quick slow.

83 Musical. Repetitive, Rhythmic. Nature of juggling. Meditative.

84 Mindfulness. Present in moment. Notice mind chatter. Disconnect or distracting thoughts

85 Management counselling of emotions by being aware of thoughts

86 Spiritual. In touch with universe in small unique way. 3 ball or pattern of infinity or other continuous

patterns. Order within chaos. Analogy of universal rhythm. Success feeling like a bit of truth from

impossibility. Paradoxes of Juggling magical vs realistic

87 Sense of accomplishment. Simple patterns. Sense of possibilities. Self esteem

88 Strategy and Planning for improvement

89 Uniqueness of each person represented in uniqueness of juggling

90 Growth mindset. Promotes progression and possibilities

91 Inclusive, relating. Metaphor comparing juggling to other aspect of life. Sports. Physics math music.

Self talk passes.

92 Patience. Resilience. Repetitive. Learn that results lead to further progression.

93. growth mindset. New skill. Applied to other thoughts

94 Rejuvenate by slow down racing thoughts to concentrate on simple satisfying task

95 Dexterity. Coordination. Simple subtle small changes

96 Reflexes going from known to reactions subconscious. Autonomic.

97 Portable and available anytime most places

98 anything hand can hold to patterns you can dream up to

99 Juggling occupy mind entertaining to others and oneself

100 Social interactions. Enjoyed by others shared joy, competitiveness, cooperation, motivating,