Last night, I set a new personal record in Skee-Ball. The interesting thing about a personal record is that at its core it is completely devoid of any external comparison. Sure, you can make it about who has the highest personal record, but external comparison is something you can always […]
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Process
Improvement always has a process behind it, and if you’re looking too far out into the future, you’ll miss the enjoyable part of learning, staying present, and seeing those incremental wins. And these incremental wins are really important, as the path you might have chosen might be incredibly long. It’s […]
Equal and Opposite Force
If you’ve ever taken a physics class, you’ll probably remember that for every force there is an equal and opposite force. Basically, this is why a ball sitting on a table doesn’t move in any direction. This also applies to life in general. You might be putting a ton of […]
Losing
Note: I originally wrote this a few months ago, but didn’t know how to finish it. Now I do. Tonight, I started out in a skeeball tournament ranked 3rd in the league. I was scheduled to play a best-of-three match against a 30 seed. I could make a bunch of […]