A few years ago, in a quarantine hotel in Adelaide, I “mastered” the basics of three ball juggling. It took me longer than it might have, if I had thought things through, been more methodical (story of my life) and had a tutor. Ho hum. At various points since I’ve gone through bursts of enthusiasm for it. Waxes and wanes. One spectacular moment came when I almost had my left eye out, thanks to me deliberately colliding two clubs (no, I don’t know what the hell I was doing either).
Anyway, at the beginning of April I set myself the goal/target/aspiration of – by the end of the month – being able to juggle
a) five ball cascade
b) four club basic pattern.
and to blog in detail about the twice daily training sessions. The training sessions have happened (15 to 20 minutes a pop) but the blogging hasn’t, obvs.
Progress is being made, and I am probably as good as I have been (i.e. regained any lost skill). The five ball cascade – or at least a five ball flash – is still possible, if not probable. The clubs – no, that is I suspect out of reach, because I am not yet doing consistent three club pattern with double spins.
I shall start the blogging though, so watch out.
The title of this post? Well, a couple of times I didn’t juggle clubs because the wind where I was made it too challenging. Then I realised that this was exactly the sort of environmental “disturbance” that I could/should lean into – that my skill, while rudimentary, was enough to use the challenge as a Learning Opportunity, rather than a blocker. So I started juggling clubs in windy conditions. You have to think more, watch more etc. Which probably helps….
Against the Wind, by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, btw, from 45 – FORTY FIVE – years ago.
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Hey Marc! I was intrigued by the title – cold this be a metaphor of the struggle against climate change. No you meant actual juggling. Good luck – I’ve always wanted to learn myself. Also, Happy Easter!
Thx for the musical memory, Marc…
After listening to “Against The Wind” three times, I gave these two prompts to iTAIM/AI:
Consider the lyrics of “Against The Wind”, particularly the phrase “wish I didn’t know now, what I didn’t know then” in the context of motivated reasoning, and analyse the song as a metaphor for becoming aware of the klimaktasthophe coming within CapitalismFAIL’s abruptly changing climate and its Anthropocene. Rewrite and define “klimakatastrophe” as the German “word of the year” in 2007, and this in the context that no similar word was coined in English in the United States of America during the period of “Agenda 2000”, or after. Add an addenda analyzing relative climate polices of these two nations, and the role of the Federal Reserve Note as a global reserve currency has played in thwarting effecting scientifically significant climate policies in the US and globally.
Knowing what is knowable now, that I didn’t know then is a lot to juggle. Even the large language models did not ‘know’ – probabilistically calculate – the word klimaktastrophe as a word, hence the second prompt …is that a trained motivated reasoning?
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