Back away from overwhelm. Because when you just utter that word, you cast doubt on your capacity to rise.
Ban “overwhelmed” from your vocabulary. Refuse it entry to your psyche. You’re bigger than that.
Just be, you know, whelmed.
Whelmed. Not at full capacity, rather, full of capacity.
via strike “overwhelmed” from your vocabulary • Danielle LaPorte: white hot truth + sermons on life.
“Most people have heard of muscle memory. When a person starts lifting weights after a lay off, it’s much easier for them to return to their previous levels of size and strength than it was to get there the first time around. It also takes less time. Therefore the muscle fibers must obviously “remember” their former state.
Muscle fibers do not remember anything. Muscle fibers do not have a separate independent “mind” of their own. All memory is retrieved from inside the brain which commands all action and response.…
Physiologists know that any skeletal muscle activity that is learned can become essentially automatic with practice. Muscle memory is therefore a common term for neuromuscular facilitation, which is the process of the neuromuscular system memorizing motor skills. We know that repetition is the mother of skill and that practice makes permanent. After repeating the same movement over and over again, the movement seemingly becomes second nature. It’s like we’re not paying attention but of course it’s all coming from the same region of the brain that controls everything.”
The Myth of Muscle Memory – Sports Nutrition Articles – The Cory Holly Institute.
“New technology confirms that nerve cells can sprout new branches. For example, Marshall describes cortical regeneration associated with finger-thumb opposition. … New growth is called a neurite until it differentiates into an axon or a dentrite. Researchers are still learning which chemicals support or hinder the neurogenesis seen in the video. However, only repeated training makes new dentrites cluster together so they work efficiently as a group. I haven’t seen research that says how much repetition is needed to produce neuroplasticity. I’m pretty sure that a few minutes of exercise followed by hours of disuse isn’t enough.”
via Home After a Stroke: Brain Plasticity Will Blow Your Mind.
Great TED Talk with Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. Why are some people and businesses inspiring and others just meh? Learn what it takes to inspire and become an inspirational super hero!
Link to the video at TED Talks.
I really like the idea of the law of diffusion of innovation curve. A lot of information to mull over in this video.
Anat Baniel: The Fitness Myths That Hold You Back, and How to Succeed: Myth 1.
While not the entire point of the article, those of us who develop skills and perform them apparently without thinking about them sometimes talk and think that the muscles themselves have some special power to perform tasks by themselves. “Muscle Memory” is a convenient way of describing the feeling, but far off the mark of what’s really going on:
Muscles Do Not Have a Mind of Their Own
There is no question that to be able to move, we need our muscles, and that stronger muscles provide us with the possibility for stronger, more powerful movement and stamina, making us more fit. However, muscles do not know what to do on their own. It is the brain that “tells” the muscles what to do — when to contract and when to let go — through the signals it sends to the muscles.
And in order for the brain to know what signals to send to our muscles, it has to first “know” that the muscles are there to be used and learn how to coordinate the different muscle groups successfully. Perhaps you’ve had the experience of trying to tone and strengthen certain muscles in your body and no matter how hard you exercised, it didn’t work. This is because your brain never connected fully enough to these muscles. The brain needs a rich variety of experiences from which it creates the necessary connections and patterns of our movements, also known as “mapping” in the brain.
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Anat Baniel: The Fitness Myths That Hold You Back, and How to Succeed: Myth 1.