You can imagine my relief when learning more about neuroscience and understanding that I may have been misled. I was convinced I was ‘killing’ my neurons! Based on my learning as a child, I was concerned my grey matter would be diminishing, and I used to joke that I would be 70 years of age and end up completely loopy cycling around the Southern Highlands with a stuffed pigeon on my head. Even as a teenager, I fell off a horse and got concussion (twice) and I remember being a little worried. I knocked my head against things, including walking quickly around a corner into a ‘bigger boy’, getting knocked to the ground and having concussion. It may have been a little more complex than that, yet the main theme was essentially that as an adult your neurons, or ‘grey matter’, gradually died off.Īlthough I was rarely ill as a child, I had several small head injuries. Growing up, I was taught in my science classes that the brain grew as you grew, that when you hit around 25 years of age your brain was ‘fully formed’, and after that it went downhill. THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science
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Now, there are a few giants in this industry – names like Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris have inspired everyone out there. All in all, here are some of the best martial arts biographies to inspire yourself and learn a few ideas that will help you maintain your discipline. Whether you love the discipline associated with martial arts or you want to start practicing, learning from others’ personal experiences is a must, especially when you learn from someone with an incredible reputation. It is fascinating to watch and even more exciting to practice. Martial arts do, indeed, represent actual art. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Several years later, they were blessed with the opportunity to move back to Clay Springs with their family. When she and her husband moved away from the area, Lacey took the opportunity to take some creative writing classes at the local college to help further along her interests. She would don a crazy clown outfit for the Friends of the Library fundraisers in an effort to help get the new town library built. Lacey spent a lot of time at the library from that time forward, even volunteering in her later teen years and early twenties. She read every book that she could find in the series and decided that she wanted to write stories too. It was a Nancy Drew novel and Lacey was instantly hooked. It was while she was attending the small country school in Clay Springs, that she read her first "big" book at the age of eight. She has been a life long resident of Arizona, spending most of her time growing up in the small rural town of Clay Springs. Meade Maryland while her father was serving in the military. |