Monday, August 31, 2009

Minimal Post


I've been reading a blog. It's really cool. I think it may be the secret of the universe. In keeping with it's theme, I won't repeat any of it here. I will offer a quote: "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."
Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Everywhere I hang out; work, home, car...I look around me and there's so much stuff, that focus is pretty near impossible.
Here's the blog
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It's not about skiing: It's about what I learned when I learned to ski.

You can't have fun skiing if you always lean uphill towards the seeming security of the uphill slope: Leaning up is natural for most of us though: after all, if you fall uphill, you don't have as far to go before you hit.
Trouble is when you ski like that, you spend a lot of time in the snow. Your center of balance is all out of whack, your skis slide out from under you and down you go. It's no fun.
If you want to zoom down the slopes free and easy you have to commit to the fall line, get your "nose over your toes" and risk tumbling head over heels once in a while in a glorious confusion of arms and legs and skis. But once you make the commitment: Surprise! You hardly ever fall and you can ski!
I don't ski much any more but life is like that too. You have to commit and risk a crash if you really want to live a full life.
This web log is a chronicle of the ways I find myself leaning up into the hill, and what happens when I catch myself doing it, and then lean forward instead.

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