"My cousin
juggles but it's really helped me learn that I have to do a figure eight instead of a circle with the balls," she says.
It takes a lot of practice to learn how to
juggle, and even more practice to get good at it.
(4) "Cosmo" Roberts of Clinton
juggles five balls while bouncing them off the floor and balancing on a roller board.
"Once you've learned to
juggle, and you're able to
juggle without really thinking about it, that's when it becomes a meditative practice, an experience of relaxed concentration."
In your career you have more than likely attended a seminar or two on prioritizing or you may have even attended a course on how to
juggle multiple projects.
A driver must not answer his mobile phone or eat an apple, but he may
juggle his pack of smokes, fiddle with his car lighter, gas lighter, or matches, then manage his cigarette with live ash while juggling the steering wheel and gear stick.
We all
juggle obligations and opportunities, whether we work in or outside the home.
Someone recognizes that we all have to
juggle our loyalties to our employer, our clients, our profession, those around us and ourselves (see the juggling chart on page 29 of her book).
The book-of-life concept also allows for all sorts of diversions along the way, including the Flying K staple of having the audience challenge one of the men to
juggle a trio of unorthodox objects (an umbrella, a backpack and a woman's shoe, for example).
In a recent study by scientists in Germany, people who spent three months learning to
juggle showed enlargement of part of the cerebral, cortex, the sheet of nerve cells on the brain's surface where most higher thought processes seem to be handled.
No joke: Learning to
juggle can cause changes in human brain structure, say researchers at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
Learning to
juggle is a neat trick for the brain as well as the hands.
Every day he would go to Signor Baptista's fruit and vegetable stall and
juggle.
He could
juggle! He joined a group of traveling players and became famous throughout Italy as the little juggler with the face of a clown.