Learning is like building a house.  You have the foundations, and then move to more advanced stuff.  It’s progressive.  Take Salsa, a year ago, I was like a drunken bear on the dance floor.  Now I get asked to dance by hot women.  Granted, not every time, but hey it’s flattering. 

Looking back, I regret abandoning some of the stuff that I started, but didn’t continue, Kung Fu, dancing, and music.  But you know, I might go back to them as I did with Salsa.  If I do something, I do it with passion!

For most of my 29 years, I thought the latter was true, hurriedly moving from one thing to the next, often not really stop and contemplate the reasons, directions, and consequences of my actions.  Maybe that’s why I suffered a lot of burnouts, or less flatteringly, “Chicken Running with Its Head Cut Off” syndrome.  Now I favor pacing myself with bursts of purposeful actions at the appropriate times.  It helps to think things through, even write them down.

Using a basketball analogy, Michael Jordan in his early professional years exhibits tremendous raw physical ability to go directly to the hoops, and score.  But he paid dearly from the physical punishment by the defending players, resulting in some serious injuries.  After his first retirement, and return from baseball, Michael’s shooting game improved drastically with fadeaway jump shots at the top of the Key, less action, but often more effective.