An interesting item that I want to mention here comes from the May 2021 issue of Reader's Digest. The title was: "Exercise Protects The Declining Brain ". A study done on over one hundred thousand people with Mild Cognitive Impairment showed some improvement in those people who exercised at least twice per week, or more. Needless to say the idea seems to be to increase blood flow to the brain.
Don't chess playing and playing with my cat do that as well?
Just wanted to add a quote from Omar Khayyam: " Tomorrow I will haul down the flag of hypocrisy, I will devote my grey hairs to wine: My life's span has reached seventy. If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I ? "
Just wanted to add a quote from Omar Khayyam: " Tomorrow I will haul down the flag of hypocrisy, I will devote my grey hairs to wine: My life's span has reached seventy. If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I ? "
I have that problem in Japan sometimes where some people take life so seriously. Hence why Japan was the first country to coin the expression 'working yourself to death' (karoshi).
A interesting quote from Sam Walton: " Celebrate your successes and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails put on a costume and sing a silly song. "
A interesting quote from Sam Walton: " Celebrate your successes and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails put on a costume and sing a silly song. "
Richard Branson was one for doing that as well; real publicity hound. Got balls as well, with one of his first record companies he went to jail for importing records illegally from the Continent to the UK.
A quote from the Philosopher Lao-Tzu: " He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. " ( Yes but then again do we really want to face the truth lol ).
A funny item from JB Priestley: " When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I'm old, there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. "
Just wanted to add a quote from Omar Khayyam: " Tomorrow I will haul down the flag of hypocrisy, I will devote my grey hairs to wine: My life's span has reached seventy. If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I ? "
I like the sentiment. And it sounds like Omar Khayyam was actually pretty cool, for a poet ... who knew?! All I'd remembered was he liked a good loaf of bread... plus some wine, and having somebody beside him in the wilderness ... so now that I think of it, the man was some kind of a hippie, wasn't he?
quote from Omar Khayyam: " Tomorrow I will haul down the flag of hypocrisy, I will devote my grey hairs to wine: My life's span has reached seventy. If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I ? "
I did find some beer recently, so I guess that was close enough. Not quite 70 yet, though.
" We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing " ( a quote from George Bernard Shaw ).
A quote from Sidney Portier: " So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness ". I would make a bit of a change there by getting rid of " pure randomness " and instead going with " random luck " ( luck can be either good or bad of course lol ).
tom cruise in the color of money: "for some people, luck itself is an art".
ben hogan had a great reaction to being lucky. he was playing with someone that obviously didn't recognize him. ben hit a shot and the guy said it was lucky. ben's curt response:
"yep. the more i practice, the luckier i get".
ben hogan had a great reaction to being lucky. he was playing with someone that obviously didn't recognize him. ben hit a shot and the guy said it was lucky. ben's curt response:
"yep. the more i practice, the luckier i get".
A lot if truth to that. Guys we think are lucky spent years getting into that position to get lucky. Then there are guys like Zuckerberg who just stole another’s platform and made it better.
ben hogan had a great reaction to being lucky. he was playing with someone that obviously didn't recognize him. ben hit a shot and the guy said it was lucky. ben's curt response:
"yep. the more i practice, the luckier i get".
--- Well there is some truth to that however to me the first case of having good luck in that context is that a person must first discover what is is that they might be good at ( eg: opera singing, knuckleball pitching, long distance running, brain surgery etc etc ).
An interesting item that I want to mention here comes from the May 2021 issue of Reader's Digest. The title was: "Exercise Protects The Declining Brain ". A study done on over one hundred thousand people with Mild Cognitive Impairment showed some improvement in those people who exercised at least twice per week, or more. Needless to say the idea seems to be to increase blood flow to the brain.