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Linky post: old-school LJ, class privilege, the cost of adaptation, handstands.
Here's a nostalgic article about... Livejournal itself. Old-School LiveJournal, that is, the one with heavier use than today's, the one where I guess a lot of people posted every day in high school but I posted every day in my early and mid 20s. I miss it too, even though I'm still here and you're still here.
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person does a nice job talking about poverty, and how a lot of things held up as "white privilege" are really "class privilege". As a class-hopper, I'm painfully aware of this, often. (See also this Onion article on income inequality and 5th grade birthday parties).
Lastly, for now, The Cost of Adaptation by Pavel Tsatsouline. I have several of this guy's books, and here he talks about how everything has a cost. Especially, in this context, elite performance and specialization. The best piece of advice here, I suspect, is "Do not force the rate of your progress."
Honestly, this matches well with the way I've been feeling about handstands lately: un-frustrated. I have been slow in learning, yes. But I'm strong, and for the last year or so my wrists have almost never hurt, and I make progress, and I'm in a system (3x/week coaching plus at least one more day where I practice on my own) that practically guarantees some rate of progress.
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person does a nice job talking about poverty, and how a lot of things held up as "white privilege" are really "class privilege". As a class-hopper, I'm painfully aware of this, often. (See also this Onion article on income inequality and 5th grade birthday parties).
Lastly, for now, The Cost of Adaptation by Pavel Tsatsouline. I have several of this guy's books, and here he talks about how everything has a cost. Especially, in this context, elite performance and specialization. The best piece of advice here, I suspect, is "Do not force the rate of your progress."
Honestly, this matches well with the way I've been feeling about handstands lately: un-frustrated. I have been slow in learning, yes. But I'm strong, and for the last year or so my wrists have almost never hurt, and I make progress, and I'm in a system (3x/week coaching plus at least one more day where I practice on my own) that practically guarantees some rate of progress.