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Soldiers who stand idle in a shelter during a battle as reinforcements will try to involve themselves in almost any activity in order to distract themselves from the impending danger. It seems to me that people who want to save themselves from life behave like these soldiers: some distract themselves with vanity, some with cards, politics, laws, women, gambling, horses, hunting, wine, or state affairs.
A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy and Peter Sekirin
When exposed to an unfamiliar skill, children will watch what is going on for a few minutes with total concentration. Wide-eyed, they simply gawk, absorbing the entire image at once without breaking it down into its separate parts. It is because children don’t segment experience that they are such superb mimics. The adult, on the other hand, tends to see movement in terms of a series of stop-action poses which he then translates into a list of instructions to himself. “Oh, I see—he edges his downhill ski, plants his pole, stops onto the uphill ski, and rides it through the turn.” Even if he were to succeed in forcing his body to comply with these Instructions, he would miss much of what a skiing turn is. A turn is more than just the sum of its parts; it includes rhythm, grace, balance, and coordination—none of which is on Self 1’s list. Skiing by the numbers usually results in moving like a robot through the turn. A child doesn’t learn linearly; he learns holistically. With a quiet and open mind, he takes in whole images: not just visual images, but “feel-ages” as well. With his concentration focused, he acquires a feel for what he is seeing. Self 2 then creates corresponding kinesthetic sensations in his body, so that he is almost duplicating the movement as he watches it. Free of self-judgments, when he begins to move he imitates what he saw. Totally involved in his actions, his senses continually feed back detailed information from the experience.
Inner Skiing
W. Timothy Gallwey
Before the convention began, Trump would have to pick a running mate. Realistically, Trump had few options. Most Republicans wanted nothing to do with serving on a ticket with him after the way he’d conducted his campaign. The feeling was more or less mutual. Trump had spent his professional career within the confines of a family business and was naturally inclined to distrust everyone, especially outsiders. He could imagine a relationship primarily in terms of domination. Even though his power over a running mate would be undisputed, in a vice president he would be nominating a constitutional officer who, unlike members of the cabinet or White House staff, he could not fire or drive away through insult or neglect. As opposed to many tough choices, which Trump let drift out of a refusal to commit, he faced a hard deadline to choose a running mate.
Confidence Man
Maggie Haberman
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