100 Reasons to Juggle
Learning to Learn - Scaffolding
Juggling continues learning - endlessly. A feeling of always getting better establishes a baseline of where you are at.
Something that can augment, in addition to anything you do to improve training, studying, and relaxing
Alternative eye or hand movement. Relaxes and trains the brain. Visual and Tactile Bilateral Stimulation
Books and references by Dr Alan Goldberg Competitive Edge.com
Dr. D. Grand Brainspotting.com
Visual bilateral Stimulation, Recovery from concussion when ready
Eye-hand coordination
Develop subconscious movement, which reinforces the idea of coordinated, automatic movements; Posture, poise, balance for calm, relaxed throwing
Shoulder rotator cuff, upper back, gentle, benign movements to reinforce better posture and mobility
Demonstrating increased strength 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 was once difficult.
Exercise, bending down, squatting, and standing up after dropped balls. Benign exercise
Reading increases the peripheral development of the eyes and brain, leading to increased reading ability
ADHD, Concentration, and physical activity calms ADHD, works on simple yet satisfying tasks with repetitive motions
Reduce stress with repetitive motion and practice of accepting dropped balls. Juggling and implementation of concentration and focus help rewire or give a break to stress
Teaches resilience by practicing the RUT principle, accepting the Risk and the uncertainty of each throw for small possibility of thrill of success
Teaches learning by planning small incremental, marginal gains in practice
Lev Vygotsky, ZPD zone, proximal development, scaffolding, planning the smallest of successful steps.
Teaching math concepts of simple yet similar concepts to understand concepts, realizing that juggling can be written as Algebra. Juggling has rhythm, geometry, and space. Juggling Site swap, numeric, notation, Cambridge notation, and representing patterns.
Teaches training through failure or Hard first, analyze mistakes or Resilience of success, and muscle memory;
Invigorating, warm-up, mental break. Engages the brain like meditation with focus and concentration, and is a mental break for previous activity, distracts with focus on juggling steps or a plan, reduces self-talk with resilience of persistence
Opposite is also true, going for success and completion reinforces muscle memory. Or go until failure, demonstrating a new goal and ultimate limit
“Hard first principle” Quiet Eye and Decision Training by Joan H Vickers study
Using Tennis balls + ve, cheap, nice size and weight force more purpose because –ve negative mistakes are more cumbersome with the ball rolling away. Collisions are highlighted.
Mind focus, meditative, clear vision, specific point to look at
Concentration, Meditative, watch the thought of mind, distract, or continue to allow success
Collective effervescence John Mighton, “Jump Math.”
Where the group motivates and enhances the individual experience.
Meditative watch the tightness, balance, or poise of the body, and breath. Watch the mind wander distract from positive and clear focus
Practice, shows micro scaffolding through practice, motivation, and the benefits of Practice through
Practice itself.
Prepares the mind for other activities
Thrill, triumph, sheer joy of making successful “AhA” moments
Epiphany learning that the joy or positive feeling comes from continuation, Practice Begets Practice.
Confidence and reliance come from seeing success after continual practice
Learn and practice more often than in more serious attempts. More follow-up leads to results.
Practice Fast, frequently, and Publicly (acknowledge results)
Team Chemistry versus social loafing (not caring what happens as a result of your play), Team mental
Model, Edson Filho, Circus Arts. Right thing, Right time, Right reason
Discernment, Shortcut statement to describe result, no judgment, judgment, need time for the brain to
make changes and gauge corrections
Realize the paradox of the subconscious. First need conscious objective goals, later learned to be automatic, subconscious, and quick
Brain talks positive or negative, doesn’t help automatic moves, needs to be able to describe the motor action and use that as self-talk.
“Paradoxes of Juggling” by Michael Starseletsky
Make positive self-talk about specific motor movements (Help reduce Anxiety and Choking)
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 to present. Or making adjustments.
Self Talk. Trying to bring it down to motor neural movement, or just nothing but watching and letting go (meditative), reduces anxiety
Coordinate mind and partner, Right time, Right thing, Right reason
Brain in Synch, Partner passing the Shared zone of optimal functioning
Flow, synergy, Team Mental Model Edson Filho Circus Arts. Activates similar parts of the brain
Self-esteem through practice, resilience from Small Marginal gains, and reinforcement with success
Feeling of Ambivalence, Throw and see, adjust. Books: I know one Thing, Expectation Hangover and Meditation. All suggest a ” Let’s see what happens” attitude.
Learn to love mistakes. Drop the ball, opportunity to make corrections. Graceful coping with mistakes
Be Graceful with corrections, small changes make statements, discern, no judgement
Make mistakes inconsequential. Learning comes from doing. Small changes.
Work with what you can do. Make that a warm-up. Routine of success repetition.
Juggling metaphor Japanese Proverb : “95 % is halfway there. Last 5% hardest.” Most of learning is a dropped ball. Success is practice.
Drop balls is teaching trial and error, learning, and a route to routine. Success is repetition, practice
Meditative. Watch brain statements.
Meditation: if you concentrate, breathing follows. Quick successive movements help to hold breath, but for endurance, they help to relax breathing.
Book The Happy Brain by Dean Burnett. 1994 (pages from this book 3.47.67.93.121.161). 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 the root Joculai, to Jest. To joke. Book “The Happy Brain”- enjoys weirdness, Novelty, and heightened reward
Metaphor juggling. Learn to learn, improve inevitably, apply to anything, always dropping continuous learning.
Osmosis. Not feeling the progress, but with repetition, a sudden realization that it can be done.
Chinese tree metaphor: the Bamboo tree seed must be cared for and watered for 5 years with no growth, then in 1 week the tree grows 20 feet.
Failure as success self-talk. Learning to see dropped balls as corrections.
Eyes are the window into the mind (Can see the concentration, meditative effects, or the tension in the eyes.
Corroborated by the concept of Quiet Eye by Joan H Vickers. Calgary Prof.)
Juggling self-esteem, self-talk, and self-coach, watch the corrective statements you give to yourself
Power of play, practice playfulness. Learning increases with play openness. Enjoyment
Make mistakes on purpose. Part of the process is faster, more frequent, and public. Learn faster with an increased failure rate and more practice, of course.
Plastic brain: brain makes grooves. Repeat successes. Build the smallest of steps, often a metaphor. Learning 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
Sports, activities, juggling, a good warmup, or a brain break for focus and concentration
Relaxed Concentration “Relaxed Concentration” through endurance, concentration, and focus. Jells with study, small break distraction, yet brain engaged, Improvement metaphor related to intensity, benefits of rest related to intensity of work out, study, or practice, Progress vs Results. Focus on Progress to continue brain growth. Results seem to shut the brain down. I got there. Stop. Instead of progress. Steps along the way.
Persevere with the principles of progress. Juggling teaches the perseverance of the discipline of commitment. Regular practice. Small steps. Persevere.
Meditation. Break. Focus on juggling away from other thoughts
Create joy from silly, mischievous, magical activity. Joy when seemingly impossible aligns like parts of the universe
Create Playfulness. Receptive to all things (Sign of Genius)
Keats's, “Receptivity to all things is a sign of Genius.” Be open to the impossibilities of juggling
Metaphor. Each hand opens to catch what is passed to it. Let the mind be open as well to things brought to it.
Develops Ambidexterity. The week becomes strong. Strong becomes refined. Rhythmic. Coordination of both sides of the brain. The weak side becomes better than the strong side. Then reciprocate. The new weak side needs to progress
Good better best never let it rest. Till good is better and better best. Learn progression, process, and persistence
Learning comes from mistakes, failing often, fast, and publicly. Helps rewire thoughts when realizing correction is needed.
Keeps the mind awake - Surgeons. Roger Crisfield. Juggled to keep brain awake, warmed up, ready between surgeries. Study shows that surgeons do better at tying knots when taking juggling breaks.
Combat or distraction juggling helps focus on the main activity. Relate to coaching sports and teaching priorities in plays
Passing and dropping. Helps coordinate getting back into play. What's the next move? Priority of focus
“Joggling” - jog while juggling. Juggling with other activities. Adjusting passes for accuracy and alternative goals
Poise Adjustment from macro to micro movements, subtle changes
Flow teaches a sense of flow in a non-dangerous environment. Sense of timelessness
Mental distraction, stress reduction, break from current thoughts, temporary escape.
Unique, everyone plays where they are at. Creating an artist of a sort of moving sculpture
Unique in so many ways. Learning path. Process, plateaus. Fast slow. High low. Quick slow.
Musical. Repetitive, Rhythmic. Nature of juggling. Meditative.
Mindfulness. Present in the moment. Notice mind chatter. Disconnect or distracting thoughts
Management counselling of emotions by being aware of thoughts
Spiritual. In touch with the universe in a small, unique way. 3 ball or pattern of infinity or other continuous
patterns. Order within chaos. Analogy of universal rhythm. Success feels like a bit of truth from
impossibility. Paradoxes of Juggling Magical vs. Realistic
Sense of accomplishment. Simple patterns. Sense of possibilities. Self esteem
Strategy and Planning for Improvement
The uniqueness of each person is represented in the uniqueness of juggling
Growth mindset. Promotes progression and possibilities
Inclusive, relating. Metaphor comparing juggling to other aspects of life. Sports. Physics, math, music.
Self-talk passes, meditative, let-it-go, Zen Buddhist mindfulness
Bonus Round: redundancy, reinforcement, refinement
Patience. Resilience. Repetitive. Learn that results lead to further progression.
Growth mindset. New skill. Applied to other thoughts
Rejuvenate by slowing down racing thoughts to concentrate on a simple, satisfying task
Dexterity. Coordination. Simple, subtle, small changes. Ambidextrous.
Reflexes are going from known to subconscious reactions. Autonomic.
Portable and available anytime, most places
Anything you can hold to patterns, you can dream up.
Juggling occupies the mind, entertaining others and oneself
Social interactions. Enjoyed by others: shared joy, competitiveness, cooperation, and motivation.
Pedagogical
Site-swap, mathematical comparison, a new language
musical comparison
Active Relaxation practicing a pattern