Learning juggling with 3 balls (what i felt)

In just 8 days i evolved something i though it was not going to happen in this life: making 3 balls dancing in the air without letting them fall down.

“Not in this life”, i repeated myself many times. That's the way i condemned myself for juggling, and similar to this, there are several other activities we would like to learn but we don't invest time. Why? I dont´really know ... Mmmmm maybe not learning it in the early age (before 10 years old) is discouraging us. We could have take advantage in the early childhood, era where the neuroplasticity could have conspired in our favor. But Stop the Melancholia. In this article i pretend to explain why you can defeat that myth which says “what it was not, will not ever be". 

Learning how to juggle was nothing of life or death for me. Neither it was something which kept me up all night. If if were like that —a long time ago— i would have dedicated (years ago) the daily 30 minutes i practiced now to increase this knowledge. Did i learn this because of curiosity? For sure, however it was not he only reason. Besides that, i wanted to know what was like facing that challenge, getting over that mental border existing in the head of every person who prefers no to practice it. In other side, i also suspect that the motor skill, i would gain with this art, could be transmited to the drums, instrument that i am learning since 6 months ago. The coordination from art-A must impact the art-b, as easy as someone who aspires to send virtual money from one bank account to other (Crossing fingers for not suffering an App breakdown when you just gave Submit button).

As if that were not enough, this juggling challenge gives me material for a potencial book i am trying to write, called: “From Clumsiness to Skillfulness”. I wanted to take myself as an experiment. Assuming the role of something like an immersive journalist. I wanted to verify, by myself, how can you progress step-by-step in something you started on level zero, or -1, too rookie!. Enjoying the emotion of being adjusting everyday some moves that were wrong the day before. Identify which variable(s) is complicating the result. Be friend of the process. As Diana Nyad said: “I need to be witness of that story which says: you do not surrender”. She, at 63 years old, reached a world record swimming from Cuba to Florida.

My wife (she had some circus experience), was the teacher. She focused on me 5 minutes everyday during the first week. After that, she left me alone, as it has to be. The first day i was impressed watching the beautiful cascade of balls that she built in the air, and i said: “if i activate my consciousness i will be doing what she does: setting the reality in slow motion even if the rest of the world is watching reality with normal speed”. Is like having a youtube tutorial in front of you, and i can pass it from 1x to 0.25x. Fair and necessary to dissect the process in small parts. Those people, who has learned how to play an musical instrument, reveals that is easier if you fractionate the song in small pieces, instead of trying to swallow suddenly the totality (set of chords and notes a song is conformed by). 

“If i was able, whoever can do it”, was my quote when i reach my first sounds (no disturbing) begun to appear in the guitar, 3 years ago. Or when i reached 4 meters without crashing my face into the floor, 2 years ago learning how to skate. Or when i said 7 words in a row without stuttering in front of an audience, 7 years ago. In the potencial book i will give more details of this experiment and describe how other persons (i am interviewing more than 20 people outstanding in their subjects) got over the initial clumsiness and turned into the skillfulness that make them shine today.

if i learn how to juggle, am i able now to deactivate nuclear bombs?