Josef took me aside tonight before my lesson and said, "Ahren, he do good work with you on technique (he pronounces it "technic") but not so much tactics." He told me we would work on tactics. Lesson with Josef: We started out with me just tapping him gently all the way around from right wrist up to top of head down to left wrist and back again. "Feengers, feengers," he said, emphasizing doing it in a relaxed, loose manner. He told me I was fast and ...
Hi everyone: I just thought I would provide a brief health update to everyone. As you know, I had a seizure during surgery that required them to put my brain to sleep (shut it down) eventually giving me pneumonia and also seems to have caused swelling that still hasn’t gone down. I cannot open my right eye all the way and I have a face that can scare small children. I also have double vision. I cannot drive until my vision clears up. The ophthalmologist said it should clear in 3-6 months. ...
Having just finished Gödel Eshcher Bach, I was struck by what Douglas Hofstader wrote in the opening chapters of the book describing intelligence. He says that the essential abilities for intelligence are: 1. The ability to respond to situations very flexibly. 2. The ability to take advantage of fortuitous circumstances. 3. The ability to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages. 4. The ability to recognize the relative important of different ...
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