Conversation Starters:

• Learning to Learn - Scaffolding

• Every toss breaks a rut. R.U.T.T.

• Risk, Uncertainty, Thrill, Triumph

• There is just Try and See what happens (ambivalence)

• Discernment versus judgement (no judgement)

• Intra Parietal Sulcus versus cortex

• Pass is paramount (perceive the pass)

• Whatever I say, the opposite can be true

• Paradox of juggling and its process

• the quiet eye

• Pause allows the brain to process “dwell time.”

  • Dwell time before pass “hesitate and see it” to the tune of “Ice Ice Baby”

• The group creates collective effervescence (from Jump Math - John Mighton)

  • Its the opportunity to learn something new as a group

• Juggling and extesy - the passing connection

• Japanese proverb - when you are 90% there, you are halfway

• Passing produces initial frustration

  • But when it gels leads to extraordinary benefits, like choral singing has shown, a shared bond and a coordinated effort.

• “Team cognition (gelling versus individuals forming a group) (social sluffing)

  • Gelling; coordination, cohesion, collective, efficacy

    • “Neuro - efficiency” of the group is confidence in oneself and trust in others.

  • Social sluffing is when an individual cares only abouts one self” - Edson Filho

• Gelling results in workflow super-efficiency

  • Team chemistry, dynamics, synergy, melding, coordination

  • Right time, right thing, right reason

  • Four phases of group dynamics coming together:

    • storming, norming, forming, and performing

• Find something positive in each practice

• Lev Vygotsky “zone of proximal development” “scafholding”

• Measurable, milestones, mini moments

• “Ambivalence creates motivation,” a message from Doctor Miller in Maureen Palmer’s book “You don’t have to quit.” It is a message from AA.

• Process over outcome

• Ambivalence leads to accepting, and then allows for progress.

• When Ambivalent, no other reason except for the sake of the “process.”

• Ambivalence from Christine Hassler, “Expectation Hangover”, full engagement with low attachments, passionate about the process

• Blaine the Magician: accept where you are in the process to progress, and enjoy diligent practice.

• Gabrielle Oettingen, in the book “Rethinking Positive Thinking”: “W.O.O.P.S. strategy.”

  • Wish

  • Objective

  • Obstacle

  • Plan

  • Start

• “Good better best, never let it rest, till your good is better, and your better best.”

• “Does anyone have any questions for my answers?”

• “Guarantee, learn to learn to learn to juggle.”

• “Due to the popularity of pickleball, juggling is like playing pickleball by yourself.”

• “A dropped ball is a chance for the brain to recalibrate and make adjustments and try again on its own through the ideomotor and the intraparietal sulcus.”

  • The intraparietal sulcus does all the good stuff that juggling activates:

    • spatial

    • visual

    • movement planning

    • coordination

  • Ideomotor:

    • Focuses on the mental muscle process of movement memory

    • Its the mental process of movement

    • Muscle Memory

• Practice Process over outcome

  • Which is throws versus catch

• The paradox of the beginner versus the process:

  • Beginner initially throws with failure on purpose to see the pattern

  • The process throws with purpose and success to progress

• Ideomotor:

  • Is where your muscle memory helps beyond just seeing

  • Bit of a riddle: where you fail to see helps the senses

• Easy once you can do it!