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Learning new skills keeps aging minds sharp

Monday 21 October 2013 - 8am PST

 

We are constantly reminded to "use it or lose it," and new research from the University of Texas at Dallas shows the same is true for keeping your brain up to speed.

No one likes the idea of slowing down as they age, but a new study suggests that challenging yourself to learn a new skill can bring noticeable benefits to an aging mind.

The Administration on Aging predicts that there will be 72.1 million Americans aged 65 and over by the year 2030 - 19% of the population. And the new research provides insight into how everyday activities contribute to cognitive vitality as we age.

Lead researcher, Denise Park, PhD, from the University's School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, says:

"We need, as a society, to learn how to maintain a healthy mind, just like we know how to maintain vascular health with diet and exercise."

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Science And Religion - Which Is Right? : Dance With The Elephant

 

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So who is right, science or religion?  The question centers around the third component of Life's Cosmic Equation (CP + RC + F (Faith) * T = CL ), the topic of Faith.  Faith is normally a word associated with religious beliefs.  Most of the time we don't think of faith being a part of the secular scientific approach to solving the mysteries of the universe.  

When we Dance With The Elephant, faith is the common link that bridges both communities.  A scientist places belief in a theory or a hypothesis on the basis of limited evidence and as a starting point for further investigation.  It is faith that motivates the cosmologist to venture into the unknown trusting and confident that new discoveries will be made.  That same faith is present in the religious belief system based on spiritual apprehension rather than scientific proof or validation.  God and the doctrines of the specific religion become the unknown requiring the believer to have faith.

Both science and religion are witnessing what Ray Kurzweil calls the law of accelerating returns.  We live in a world where the advances made in human-created technology are expanding at an exponential rate.  Not just one plus one, but two times two times two.  Think of walking 30 steps in a linear world and you just walked the distance of each step times 30.  Walk 30 steps in the exponential world and you just covered the distance of a single step times 1 billion.  Science and religion are both facing an immediate future involving exponential rates of change and only through faith will civilization have the capacity to dance with it.

In a world of exponential accelerating change, both science and religion are pitted against the same great unknown.  Hopefully, through our common star dust origins, there is a story that can bridge and unite the divide that existed in the past between these two faith based groups.  Each of us must apply the entire Life's Cosmic Equation to our lives and dig deeper into the question of what will bring purpose and meaning to our lives in this new exponential evolving world we're now entering into.

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A STORY OF FAITH : HOW THE AUTHOR'S OF DANCE WITH THE ELEPHANT CAME TOGETHER TO WRITE THIS BOOK.

AS TOLD BY DUANE KUSS:

Don and I meet together once a month with a group of four persons who call themselves a "C.O.T." group or "Circle Of Trust". The purpose of the group is centered around the same four pillars of support: respect, trust, desire for growth and confidentiality. It was at one of our monthly meetings that I challenged Don to meet with me at 5:00 AM on a Thursday morning and to explore the possibility of writing a book together. We agreed to meet a minimum of four consecutive Thursdays and after that decide if we had the workings of a book and a reason to continue our efforts together.

My purpose in life has always been to explore and discover. I could be called a 21st century Christopher Columbus with the only difference being, instead of sailing the ocean blue, I explore the internet too! Every day, via e-newsletters; group emails; RSS feeds; Facebook exchanges; Twitter entries; Google searches; and live webcasts, I surf the internet exploring a myriad of topics that interest me. As a writer, speaker, consultant and publisher, I track a wide range of subjects daily. You might think of me as a selfcontained media network. It’s my "Creative Power" that inspires me to explore, discover and apply new ideas, concepts and technologies I learned online.

Don and I have known each other for more than a decade. Don's granite memorial company was one of my customers when I first launched my DigElog online publishing network. More recently, the we have become best friends primarily through our monthly C.O.T. group meetings. Don has been involved with monument sales all of his professional career. He holds true to his Irish heritage by capturing his client's attention with delightful stories, always intermixed with his wonderful sense of humor. Don is a story teller and has always dreamed of combining his stories together into the chapters of a book.

It was the morning of the C.O.T. group's monthly meeting in October of 2011. I was working in my home office on Hermit Lake and this morning I was viewing a web video series on information product design, including the topics of course development and book design. One of the guest speakers is from Israel and he catches my attention when he promises to share his step-by-step process for writing an entire book in a single week. That evening, at the C.O.T meeting, Don once again embellished a story and concluded his entertaining narrative with his favorite cliche, "You know, some day I really should write a book!" But this time, instead of the group placating Don with nodding heads, I shifted forward in my chair and looked Don direct in the eye.

"Don, I have heard you use that phrase a hundred times, if I have heard it once. It's time to make your dream come true and I have discovered a way to help you write your book." said Duane.

Okay, so what does this long-winded story have to do with the cosmic equation topic of Faith? And how is it that I would think I could help Don write a book, when neither of us have any previous training or experience in knowing what it would take?

What you can witness in this story is my taking a "leap of faith". Even though I had no rational reason or evidence to indicate that Don or I could research, write, design and publish a book, I had "faith" that our time together would result in something positive. We both had faith, that at the very minimum, our experience together would bring purpose and meaning to our own lives.

Over the next 18 months, Don and I not only developed the 100 topics for four books, but we discovered a new way of defining the journey of life itself. Think about it: two slightly above average family guys; a techie and a monument salesman; living in the land of "Lake Wobegon"; come together for a few 5 AM breakfasts and in the process discover a simple way of describing humanity's role in the universe. Together we dreamed up three simple equations based on the "Me", "We", and "What Will Be" contribution every human being makes in the world. Three equations that explain the creation of each individual's Cosmic Legacy in the universe.

Don and I had faith that their combined Creative Power and personal experience with Receptive Choice, would magically guide us into the unknown future and eventually bring us to a point of discovery worth writing about. Now, whether you agree or disagree with the principles presented in this book, which introduce life's three equations to the world for the first time, most people would have to agree that, the chance that any of this would be created by two slightly above average "Lake Wobegon" guys, is a miracle unto itself. And faith played a critical role in the entire process!

If you are a person of religious or spiritual faith, understanding the kind of faith Don and I had in each other, may seem quite trivial. In order for anyone to have a faith and belief in a religion, it requires a certain amount of trust in the unknown and undefined. There’s a piece of every religion that requires faith because there are no tangible answers or proofs of its doctrines and mandates. Don and I had complete faith, trust and condence that our journey had a denite purpose in our lives. We also believed that the results of our efforts would at the very least make a difference in our personal lives, even if we failed at writing and publishing our book. 

 

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Who's right? Science or Religion? : Dance With The Elephant

So who is right, science or religion?  The question centers around the third component of Life's Cosmic Equation (CP + RC + F (Faith) * T = CL ), the topic of Faith.  Faith is normally a word associated with religious beliefs.  Most of the time we don't think of faith being a part of the secular scientific approach to solving the mysteries of the universe.  

 

When we Dance With The Elephant, faith is the common link that bridges both communities.  A scientist places belief in a theory or a hypothesis on the basis of limited evidence and as a starting point for further investigation.  It is faith that motivates the cosmologist to venture into the unknown trusting and confident that new discoveries will be made.  That same faith is present in the religious belief system based on spiritual apprehension rather than scientific proof or validation.  God and the doctrines of the specific religion become the unknown requiring the believer to have faith.

 

Both science and religion are witnessing what Ray Kurzweil calls the law of accelerating returns.  We live in a world where the advances made in human-created technology are expanding at an exponential rate.  Not just one plus one, but two times two times two.  Think of walking 30 steps in a linear world and you just walked the distance of each step times 30.  Walk 30 steps in the exponential world and you just covered the distance of a single step times 1 billion.  Science and religion are both facing an immediate future involving exponential rates of change and only through faith will civilization have the capacity to dance with it.

 

In a world of exponential accelerating change, both science and religion are pitted against the same great unknown.  Hopefully, through our common star dust origins, there is a story that can bridge and unite the divide that existed in the past between these two faith based groups.  Each of us must apply the entire Life's Cosmic Equation to our lives and dig deeper into the question of what will bring purpose and meaning to our lives in this new exponential evolving world we're now entering into.

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