My daughter is a professional artist and owns an art gallery - she has just bought a Mitre Saw. Why? So she can make frames for her own paintings (frames are expensive, she'll save £100's per painting) + she can offer a framing service
If a kid hates maths but likes cars, forget trying to teach them maths; let him/her mess about with cars - he will naturally learn the maths necessary to become knowledgeable about cars and engines, there will be no resistance to learn
Years ago, when @hib31_art became an artist it wasn't in her mind to use machine tools! The evolution of her business, interest, and the nature of opportunity has led to it. No one could have predicted it.
There are relative standards and *absolute* standards; if you have absolute standards in a world of relative standards you are seem as obsessed, weird, orthorexic - but being judged by people with no absolute standards is as significant as a fart in a hurricane.
To have absolute standards in anything you have to create a force-field around you, as the entire environment and its agents are trying to turn you into a mediocre half-human.
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- Aging is diminishing variation
- The 1st Law of Cybernetics
- The best predictor of your future health is your current health
- Anna Karenina principle
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Ok, this was a paradigm changing day for me; I cycled along the Essex coast, first stop was Canvey Island, essentially a cockney diaspora bubble from London's East End.
This is the FIRST coastal resort where people said "Good Morning" and "Hello" as I walked along the front...
...the whole area was scrupulously clean and tidy. An old man (an eastender) started having a chinwag with me. People were very polite to each other (and the shopworkers were too) and friendly.
The East End of london is practically unrecognisable now (demographically) bengalis..
bangladeshis, muslims, blacks (can I say that) - the real eastenders moved out after the war to new towns with better accommodation and away from the areas that were changing.
Canvey Island is 99.9% white, hardly a hint of brown (I realised I was the brown one) with...
Embracing the idea of failure is the best way to improve (in technical sports). It’s an overused cliché but failures really are a necessary part of progress.
Four examples from sport:
1 - Juggling:
To learn to juggle you shouldn’t focus on catching but on throwing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t catch the ball. Trying to catch means your throwing becomes a desperate attempt to clear your hand for an incoming ball...
...this results in throws which are impossible to catch as you have headlessly thrown them outside your catching range.