Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Shared Items
I just added a new widget on the right for some "money" articles (earning that title by the default color associated with it) that I've come across while ritually accessing my Google Reader and it's more than approximately 45 sources it so dutifully collects from on the spot...
I share my favorites, and sort through all the other stuff so you don't have to. If you find something you like - subscribe to their blogs; or keep reading mine ;-) It's easy to do, and if you have a Google account - even easier.
I was inspired to add my shared articles to my blog today after a very well written post by a very good friend, Keith Bradbury. He talks about how different competition climbing is and has a very good tone of voice. I shared it to the right, but you can also access it by clicking on his name, just above.
I empathize with him fully - and after this past June, having qualified for the US team and not climbing to my potential, empathize yet again. It seems like I just can't perform 100% then and there. And one hypothesis that has arisen out of this, answers the question of what makes a good competition climber? And I suspect that part of what needs to be there is an ego. Not a hubris of which could ultimately be a downfall, but perhaps some mixture of cockiness and level-headedness - because, as they have said: If you can't visualize it, you can't do it. Could climbing really be all that mental? Do things really boil down to what we believe is possible? Oh the questions I have...
But until I get my answers, I'll let Uncle Somebody guide the way...
"Practice makes perfect. Or perhaps it should be that an infinite amount of practice makes perfect, but since we are finite we can only ever strive for perfection, which is what I’m trying to do"
About a week left to practice, practice, practice... and maybe try on a big head.
I share my favorites, and sort through all the other stuff so you don't have to. If you find something you like - subscribe to their blogs; or keep reading mine ;-) It's easy to do, and if you have a Google account - even easier.
I was inspired to add my shared articles to my blog today after a very well written post by a very good friend, Keith Bradbury. He talks about how different competition climbing is and has a very good tone of voice. I shared it to the right, but you can also access it by clicking on his name, just above.
I empathize with him fully - and after this past June, having qualified for the US team and not climbing to my potential, empathize yet again. It seems like I just can't perform 100% then and there. And one hypothesis that has arisen out of this, answers the question of what makes a good competition climber? And I suspect that part of what needs to be there is an ego. Not a hubris of which could ultimately be a downfall, but perhaps some mixture of cockiness and level-headedness - because, as they have said: If you can't visualize it, you can't do it. Could climbing really be all that mental? Do things really boil down to what we believe is possible? Oh the questions I have...
But until I get my answers, I'll let Uncle Somebody guide the way...
"Practice makes perfect. Or perhaps it should be that an infinite amount of practice makes perfect, but since we are finite we can only ever strive for perfection, which is what I’m trying to do"
About a week left to practice, practice, practice... and maybe try on a big head.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Semantics
Isn't it funny how we, generally speaking, convince ourselves that certain courses of action or decisions are in our best judgment simply by manipulating the words we use? We try and tell ourselves that it's "a traffic accident" - negativvve, someone wasn't paying the undivided attention required of driving and there was a collision.
One of my favorite quotes of all time,
"... while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth." - (See if you can guess what that's from)
Our diction determines not only our tone of voice, but the actual definition of what we say sentence to sentence. Listen to what you're saying - you'll find out that a lot of what comes out makes little or no sense at all...
And don't even get me started on exaggeration.......
And from the master of changing words to suit an agenda......
One of my favorite quotes of all time,
"... while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth." - (See if you can guess what that's from)
Our diction determines not only our tone of voice, but the actual definition of what we say sentence to sentence. Listen to what you're saying - you'll find out that a lot of what comes out makes little or no sense at all...
And don't even get me started on exaggeration.......
And from the master of changing words to suit an agenda......
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