Goals

Declared

• self-defense
• confidence
• discipline
• health

Implicit

• mental health
• rationality
• resilience to adversity and uncertainty

Knowledge Domains

physics

• leverage: fulcrum, distance, force, resistance
• force vs. energy vs. power
• kinetic chains
• angles, deflection, trigonometry
• fragility

anatomy

• skeleton
• skull: 8 cranial + 14 facial
• hand: 5 phalanges + 14 metacarpals
• spine: 7 cervical + 12 thoracic + 5 lumbar
• muscles
  • upper: pecs, delts, traps, lats, triceps, biceps, rhomboids
  • core: abs, obliques, erector spinae, psoas, hip adductors
  • lower: glutes, quads, hams, calves, tibialis anterior (shin)

Mental Health

• water (fountain)
• declutter (remove posters)
• meditation (monthly class?)
• music (kiai?)
• structure (done)
• community (events?)
• relinquishment (community service?)
• confidant (?)
• mantra (creed?)
• growth mindset
• gratitude

Avoiding Magical Thinking

• horse stance and lazy dogs => proprioreception
• hands floor illusion => unreliable senses
• whirlpools and faeries => magical thinking
• monkey bars => ancestral environment
• tai chi => utility
• bessemer steel => curiosity in action / empiricism doesn't depend on theory

Scientific Process

• A/B testing kicks
• controlled environment vs. uncertainty/resistance