Just heard on CNN (so it's true)

Mastering juggling increases brain matter

(and then a few 3 ballers were shown)


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I've heard that just about anything that is difficult to learn is good
excercise for the brain. Unicycling is pretty high up there too, which
is why many of us are here. I know I've learned many things trying to
ride that have transfered across into my general ability to move. I'm
not the most talented or coordinated guy in the world, and I've been
driving a desk for 25 years, so perhaps my middle aged brain is
"growing" at a faster rate than an athletic 16 year old's would.

Brains slowly attrophy in a lifetime, but constant learning stops or
even reverses that process. Like with muscles, if you don't use it you
lose it. Medical researchers find that trial lawyers, who have to
rapidly learn the facts on every new case they get, are among the
fittest mentally. Their brains are usually indistinguishable from 20
year old's brains when they die. Adventurers are similar - sharp as a
tack even at 80 (well, except for Messner... sad story there.) People
with repetitive occupations, like coal mining or assembly work in
factories, often lose up to 50% of their brain volume by the time they
are 70. Hard drinking accelerates the process. It's really sobering
to compare MRI scans of old guys with different occupations.


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I can see the TV show now;


Ryan Atkins: Trial Lawyer

'Did you or did you NOT order the Pedal Grab?'

'He had to gap'

'YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE GAP!!!'


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Sofa wrote:
*Mastering juggling increases brain matter *


u mean u missed 'it?' (http://tinyurl.com/3248f)

if CNN gets excited about a couple of 3ballers,
can u imagine how much 5balls must increase your brain ?!


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GILD wrote:
*can u imagine how much 5balls must increase your brain ?! *

People should be warned! If they master too many balls their brains may
explode!

Phil


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phil wrote:
*
People should be warned! If they master too many balls their brains
may explode!
*


I can juggle (somewhat), ride a uni and do some pretty cool tricks with
a yoyo, yet my brain seems to just limp along. Maybe all the these
activities have combined to explode critical thinking components of my
brain.

Jason


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jason wrote:
*I can juggle (somewhat), ride a uni and do some pretty cool tricks
with a yoyo, yet my brain seems to just limp along.*

Maybe that's the vital part left out of the story... the huge, expanding
"juggling" part of the brain pushes the rest of it out of the ears...


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jason wrote:
*I can juggle (somewhat), ride a uni and do some pretty cool tricks
with a yoyo, yet my brain seems to just limp along. Maybe all the
these activities have combined to explode critical thinking components
of my brain. *


jason, i'm not sure what u do for a living so i'm not sure if u ever
face the kind of problem-solving situation that u sometime seem to sort
out while u're in that half-dream/half-wake stage of sleep early in the
morning (10-15mins b4 the alarm clock goes off)

if u know what i'm talking about (failing which, u're just gonna have to
wait till u have to help KMM with his geometry homework - relax, u've
got a couple of years ), try this
the next time u find yourself with trying to figure something out, pick
up your three balls and go stand in front of a mirror
get your cascade going and by just looking at the top of the balls and
eventually looking 'thru' the pattern, look yourself in the eye while u
keep the cascade going
keep this up for a while and dont be surprised if u dont suddenly start
thinking about your problem in a whole new way

i know it sounds all new-agey hey-shoo-wow and stuff

try it


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phil wrote:
*
People should be warned! If they master too many balls their brains
may explode!

Phil *


... after juggling or unicycling for a while, I either sit down in front
of either the TV or computer and fry all those brain cells that
developed. I figure the size of my brain stays pretty constant if I do
that.


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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:15:21 -0600, GILD
wrote:

keep this up for a while and dont be surprised if u dont suddenly start
thinking about your problem in a whole new way

i know it sounds all new-agey hey-shoo-wow and stuff

Hey GILD, with that last 'dont' it doesn't sound new-agey at all. It
just says Probably nothing happens. Should we omit that last 'dont'
(or the first 'dont' instead which makes it even stronger)?

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