Last weekend I had a lot of fun in a motorcycle safety training course, and it reminded me of some of the stuff that I had discussed here before. Learning how to ride a motorcycle, like the acquisition of any skill, is both fun and challenging. What you have to remember is that the same thing that makes it fun -- namely, stimulation, creation and establishment of new neural pathways -- is exactly what makes it challenging. You're doing something new, so your whole brain is lighting up. That's the fun part. And, at the same time, because it's new,
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Tuesday is most often my movie night and I watched Hustle and Flow, starring Terrence Howard. No he's a pretty smooth character and as a pimp controls the lives of a few women in the film. His real passion which he surpressed for years was to get his rap heard by someone. Well he struggles to get things together but they do. And one telling scene for me was just before he goes out to meet the big rapper from his home town who's visiting one Read More → 