Rabbit Trails and Spiderwebs

Trust There is a short video (you should watch it now)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5nJX3sbbM&t=341s   of a glass bridge in China that is over 1,000 ft in the air clinging to the side of a sheer cliff.   It is a walking bridge that you have to wear surgical type booties to walk on it to keep it from scratching the surface.   Thousands of people are on this bridge at any given time… but there are some that are not capable of the task.   Here is the interesting part: it has nothing to do with what they see before them.   The hundreds of people near them and the thousands that have gone before are irrelevant as they are only capable of seeing their impending death due to the glass breaking and they fall to the ground below. As if this was not enough, some genius figured out how to make the glass crack when you step on certain sections and then the craziness ensues… Regardless of the fact that the person they are with ...

Clutching Christians I was listening to the difference between Panic and Clutching with regards to sports.   In the story the author (Malcolm Gladwell) described the clutch of a winning tennis player that for some reason double faulted on the last point of the match, and then failed to execute several shots that would have won the final point for game, to then fall completely apart and lose the entire match.   If it had not been Wimbledon, no one would have cared, but it was and they did.   The author went on to describe both the match and the mindset of a clutch. It goes like this…   When a person is learning about the process of a sport or hobby there is a learning curve that is the same for all.   The systematic repetition of a swing.   Forehand, backhand, serve, etc the issue is refining and repetition with a coach for a while, then less frequently, then only for key issues.   It is this “muscle memory” that is being developed over time and re...