Best Soccer player in history was hypothyroid
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@evan-hinkle you don’t even enjoy engaging in any sport personally? not even dance or basketball one on one for example? It can be elevated to an art. I agree simple running or swimming laps can be dulling.
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@16charactersitis I’ve been trying to teach my children how to throw a frisbee lately, maybe that counts?
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@evan-hinkle sure does. A boomerang would be fine too
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@evan-hinkle said in Best Soccer player in history was hypothyroid:
@16charactersitis I’ve been trying to teach my children how to throw a frisbee lately, maybe that counts?
If they have mastered the frisbee you can register them at a table tennis club. The frisbee motion is like the backhand topspin motion in table tennis.
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"The Master and His Emissary that people who are exceptionally good at what they do access more right brain functions when doing what they're good at compared to other people
"That is fascinating I remember Neymar (another soccer player brain activity was compared to average Sunday league players I will check it out to see if that correlates the quote
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@NoeticJuice said in Best Soccer player in history was hypothyroid:
I tried to search for the page to quote it here, but I couldn't find it.
I think I found it:
"Indeed at the risk of appearing to allow the left hemisphere even less to walk away with, I should point out that there is evidence that even those of the highest verbal, as well as spatial, ability probably rely to a greater extent on the right hemisphere.⁵³⁴ Perhaps inevitably following from that, it turns out that those of highest intelligence, whatever their discipline, may do so.⁵³⁵"
The Master and His Emissary (2019), p. 92
Ian McGilchrist- Gorynia & Müller, 2006
- O'boyle & Benbow, 1990
By the way, the hemispheres can inhibit each other. So if a person increased energy in the left hemisphere without also doing so in the right hemisphere, perhaps it could reduce access to right hemisphere functions.
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@lobotomize-me interesting, thanks. There are good points, but there are also some things I disagree with or want to add nuance on.
It would be wrong (depending on context) to say that there's increased right hemisphere activity, but I don't think it would be wrong (although not the whole picture) to say that there's increased access to (or reliance on) right hemisphere functions. There's a difference there.
While the left hemisphere is often thought of as analytical and logical, the right hemisphere is also involved in reasoning, including in deductive reasoning and some types of mathematical reasoning.
This is a better summary of the main differences between the hemispheres:
@NoeticJuice said in Quotes from books:
"If one had to encapsulate the principal differences in the experience mediated by the two hemispheres, their two modes of being, one could put it like this. The world of the left hemisphere, dependent on denotative language and abstraction, yields clarity and power to manipulate things that are known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit, disembodied, general in nature, but ultimately lifeless. The right hemisphere, by contrast, yields a world of individual, changing, evolving, interconnected, implicit, incarnate living beings within the context of the lived world, but in the nature of things never fully graspable, always imperfectly known — and to this world it exists in a relationship of care. The knowledge that is mediated by the left hemisphere is knowledge within a closed system. It has the advantages of perfection, but such perfection is bought ultimately at the price of emptiness, of self-reference. It can mediate knowledge only in terms of a mechanical rearrangement of other things already known. It can never really 'break out' to know anything new, because its knowledge is of its own representations only. Where the thing itself is 'present' to the right hemisphere, it is only 're-presented' by the left hemisphere, now become an idea of a thing. Where the right hemisphere is conscious of the Other, whatever that may be, the left hemisphere's consciousness is of itself."
The Master and His Emissary (2019), pp. 174-175
Ian McGilchristThere's of course much more detail to be added about the differences, which is why there's an entire book (or half of a book) about it.
