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Use it or lose it, we all know about that (even if we don’t abide by it). It’s a fundamental law of the universe that applies to everything from your muscles to your ability to think or even exercise tolerance. But just as powerful, yet often ignored in our demanding culture, is the axiom “slowly but surely.” How easy it is for us to forget this fundamental fact about learning…

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I saw a little girl eating ice cream the other day. She was so attentive — diligently milking her culinary experience, savouring every moment almost frame by frame. It made me think of how most of us, as we became adults, simply forgot how to stay in the present. Oh, the joy we miss of what it was like to be young and innocent! This is what I think we’ve lost in playing by the rules, in our drive to succeed and improve, to get more and achieve faster. We don’t even stop to wonder why or how life became so routine. Instead, we abide and just reel from the fatigue and mental stress of a remaining future that seems to slip away faster than it should…

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