<div dir="auto">Spike, l understand what you mean about paragliding. I have a friend who was a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy, and on their glider team. He had a nasty crash and spent months in rehabilitation. The Air Force decided to expel him from their academy, despite him claiming a full recovery, and passing the physical fitness test. The Air Force leadership felt that down the road his old injuries might flare up.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">He was heartbroken and continued school where l was attending. Upon graduation, with a degree in Russian Studies, he applied for an officer's commission with the Air Force, Army and Navy, but they all said no, due to his accident. But those devil dogs, the Marines, said they needed bright officers, and so they would take a chance on him! Well, he did just fine and last l heard, he was serving as an intelligence officer in Afghanistan. Oh, and he married the daughter of the local Mormon singles group leader! Lol </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 4:38 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Aug 26, 2020, at 12:10 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Does anyone know why it is that pro athletes and, just for another example, classically trained musicians need to practice so much?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">My violinist friend said: "If I don't practice today, I know it. If I don't practice tomorrow, you'll know it. If I don't practice the next day, everyone will know it."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Could it be that rarely practiced skills representing certain brain areas get taken over by new concerns? I have no clue.</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Your friend was paraphrasing Jascha Heifetz. (No worries. I’ve heard too many musicians pass that one off without attribution since college.)</span></div><div><br></div><div>By the way, my violin-playing was so bad, no one wanted me to practice. (Please no on bring up the anecdote about George III. I’ve used that one myself several times.)<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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