Monica Showalter
JOE’S HITS KEEP ROLLING IN: LOAN DEBT AMNESTY CHAOS, HIS LATEST SINGLE
As President Obama used to say of his clownish vice president: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--- things up."
That brings us to Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness rollout, announced this week.
Let's set aside the issue of the legality of the matter. The actual execution of the matter is Joe in Action.
According to Axios:
The implementation of President Biden's widespread, income-targeted student loan forgiveness is shaping up to be a bureaucratic challenge for the Department of Education.
Why it matters:
UNSCIENTIFIC NONSENSE OF MULTIPLE GENDERS
A Nobel Prize-winning German developmental biologist called the transgender movement’s claims “unscientific” and “nonsense,” and their plans to let teenagers determine their own gender “madness.”
In an interview published last week by the German feminist magazine EMMA, Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard cited hard scientific facts to counter the trendy notion that there are multiple genders.
“All mammals have two sexes, and man is a mammal,” she explained. “There’s the one sex that produces the eggs, has two X chromosomes. That’s called female. And there’s the other one that makes the sperm, has an X and a Y chromosome. That’s called male.”
WOKEISM ISN’T A LATINO VALUE
Language is important and words do matter. Through language we learn, we communicate our intentions, we develop plans, and we express our feelings. Through language we convey our affections and transmit our displeasures.
It is language that binds a family, a community, a region, or a culture together. Today, however, this fundamental cultural glue is purposefully being watered down and dissolved in order to break the bonds of our nation.
Wokeism in its purest forms breaks down clarity, and replaces truth with new grievance norms that masquerade as justice. Wokeists try to negate centuries of tradition, culture and science (!) by socially shaming opposing views and using coercive tactics on young children to adopt concepts that go against every grain of common sense and human understanding of the world around us.
TAIWAN VOWS TO COUNTER AFTER CHINA’S DRONE INCIDENT
Taiwan is warning that its military won't hesitate to exercise right of self-defense and to counter-attack in the event of Chinese forces entering its territory, following an unprecedented event on Tuesday wherein live ammunition was fired as 'warning shots' against a cluster of drones that appeared near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands. Flares had initially been deployed to warn off the drones, but per Taiwan's defense ministry live ammo was then used to force the drones' departure.
Taipei followed Wednesday with this warning:
"We will continue defending our national security, firmly holding on to the median line, and doing whatever it takes to protect our homes, our families, and our sovereignty," according to the words of defense ministry spokesperson Li-Fang Sun.
Within hours after issuing the warning, another drone incident has been reported, with Taiwan's military saying it detected "three civilian drones" in the area of its offshore island possessions on Wednesday. It further confirmed that warning shots were again fired to fend off the unidentified drones, believed to have been dispatched from China's mainland.
THE STRANGEST THING ABOUT ‘SEMI-FASCIST TRUMP’
For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers, he remains an existential threat to democracy.
But to quantify those charges, what exactly has Trump done extralegally—as opposed to his bombast and braggadocio about what he might have wished to have done?
And what are the standards by which to judge this supposed menace? Did Trump illegally and with a mere signature nullify over $300 billion of contracted student loans—to firm up his college-student and college-graduate base nine weeks before the midterm elections?
Did Donald Trump weaponize the feared IRS, the logical place to find fascistic tendencies of any president bent on using government to punish his enemies? Did he push through a plan to add 87,000 new IRS investigative agents at a time of national discord?
FAILED STATE: A GUIDE TO RUSSIA’S RUPTURE
Attempts to transform the Russian Federation into a nation state, a civic state or a stable imperial state have failed.
The current structure is based on brittle historical foundations, possesses no unified national identity, whether civic or ethnic, and exhibits persistent struggles between nationalists, imperialists, centralists, liberals and federalists.
Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the imposition of stifling international economic sanctions will intensify and accelerate the process of state rupture.
Paradoxically, while Vladimir Putin assumed power to prevent Russia’s disintegration, he may be remembered as precipitating the country’s demise. New territorial entities will surface as Moscow’s credibility crisis deepens amidst spreading ungovernability, elite power struggles, political polarization, nationalist radicalism, and regional and ethnic revivals.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY: THE GREAT ENRICHMENT
We are in the midst of remarkable times, and our relationship to money is very different because of it. Appreciating this can open up possibilities for how you think, feel and act with your money.
We all see the world through the lens of the culture and the times in which we live. People living during the Renaissance didn’t know they were living during the Renaissance and didn’t call it that. It’s often only in hindsight that we can see the pattern.
Today it’s hard to fully appreciate the truly remarkable conditions in which we live. For us it’s just life. For our ancestors, it would be breathtaking. How did this “Great Enrichment” happen to our world, when it never did for all the centuries before?
SKYE’S LINKS 08/25/22
What many 'Crats really want: to mostly or completely rewrite the Constitution - or eliminate it:
New York Times: Throw out the ‘Broken Constitution’ and ‘Reclaim America’
Good news! It sure looks like we have passed Peak Greta:
Greta Thunberg Cult Has Gone 'Bust': Sky News
Huge win against corporate vax mandates on both religious and medical exemption grounds in Fifth Circuit Court:
Federal Court Nixes Vaccine Mandate, Citing Religious Liberty
CAN ENOUGH WHISTLE BLOWERS BRING DOWN THE FBI?
Another slew of whistleblowers have come forward with misconduct claims against the FBI following the Bureau's raid on former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
FBI field offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo and Newark face accusations that their upper management coerced agents to sign false affidavits, inflated terrorism caseloads to improve their apparent performance, engaged in illicit sexual activities, or concealed those of others.
“The FBI is completely out of control and its culture and structure needs to change. Not only is the political bias completely out of control and disgustingly obvious, the FBI knows they will not be held accountable for their illegal behavior and misconduct,” said one Whistleblower in a letter to Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tx) of the House Judiciary Committee.
WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?
A new group called Climate Intelligence (Clintel for short) has been founded in the Netherlands with the express purpose of combatting the extremism of the climate change campaigners.
One of their early efforts is a statement, signed by over 1,000 scientists and policy experts from around the world, that argues “There Is No Climate Emergency.”
This link goes to the complete PDF. It contains the following statement, and the names and positions of, to date, 1,107 scientists from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China & Hong Kong, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA.
From 40 countries, they agree on this statement:
RUSSIAS DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE IS ACCELERATING
Most countries are slowly recovering from the disastrous demographic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Russia is not.
Instead, as new data shows, the Russian Federation has resumed its long-term demographic decline, a trend likely to intensify and profoundly affect not only the country’s self-image but also its prospects for economic recovery and fielding a large military.
The Kremlin is currently casting about for ways to limit or reverse this trend, but financial constraints—many of which arise from President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and ideological blinders affecting much of the Russian leadership—are preventing Moscow from making real progress, according to independent demographers.
Many Russians see three demographic trends in particular as incredibly threatening.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY COMMITTING TO LIFE WITHOUT CRISIS
The Leap of Faith – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I’m used to hearing from people in crisis. As a psychotherapist and life coach, it’s part of my business. It may be a crisis in a marriage, a crisis at work, a financial crisis… There are many places for crises to wreak havoc in our lives.Some crises are unavoidable. We control only so much of what happens in our lives, and sometimes life throws hardship, tragedy, or deeply chaotic circumstances our way. I don’t make light of or gloss over the realities of life; but I do make it my business to help people to avoid unnecessary troubles, and there is one thing that we can do to prevent some of the more predictable crises of life:
Make and hold your positive commitments all the way, without reservation.
Commitment requires a leap of faith. Like Indy’s Leap of Faith to reach the Grail, we are ordering our future without any assurance of what that future will bring. It asks us to remove the safety harness, forgo the escape hatch, burn the ships that could take us back to our familiar life, and believe that we can handle the risks and the rewards of commitment.
SKYE’S LINKS 08/18/22
[Note by JW: Skye has jam-packed so much need-to-know cool info here, all the way to the end. Wow!]
A brief history of how we got to this political precipice by Pete Hoekstra:
Understanding woke social dynamics and the woke drive for ever-greater victimhood, a real must-read!:
THE CAMPUS LEFT, IRAN’S MULLAHS, AND ORWELLIAN “FREE SPEECH”
Oberlin University is under fire over its Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies who once served as the Iran’s ambassador at the United Nations. He’s Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who supports the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
His personal website further states his research is “focused on the ethics of peacemaking in Islam in the context of comparative religions.” Nothing says ethics and peace more than a lethal fatwa targeting dissenting authors. Right?
Few academics would support Iran’s blood-soaked interpretation of free speech. However, we need to address the creeping relativism that is sweeping across our campus. It’s as fully 1984 Orwellian as Mahallati.
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR RUSSIA
[Note by JW: The author, Jacob Fraden, is a very interesting fellow. Born and raised in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) in Russia’s western Siberia 77 years ago, he earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Ural Polytechnic there, and was able to escape the Soviet Union to America in the mid-70s. He has dozens of patents for medical inventions such as the Thermoscan Instant Thermometer, and has authored major textbooks plus autobiographies (one in Russian, the other in English). This is a brilliant Renaissance man, and I encourage you to regard what he writes very seriously.]
Russia's bloody and senseless war against Ukraine has been going on for almost six months. Instead of the original goal of quickly seizing Ukraine and turning it into a puppet state or a province (the name "Ukraine" is derived from the Russian word for “outskirts"), Russia has suddenly encountered an impenetrable wall of resistance.
Two questions logically arise: 1) why did Russia attack Ukraine? and 2) how and when will the war end?
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY BEING A MORAL STEAM ENGINE IN YOUR OWN LIFE
Before we begin, I must express my deep appreciation to TTPer Joe Katzman for his unsolicited thoughtfulness in posting this on the TTP Forum. Thank you so much, Joe!
“We’re using Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions in our homeschool. At $189, it was an excellent investment that I would recommend to every parent and grandparent.
Joel goes to the underlying basis of our moods, and what they’re supposed to do for us. Our moods and emotions have jobs. That’s why it’s a bad idea to suppress them.
If you understand the jobs they’re supposed to be doing, you can recognize them and work with them. Joel gives concrete helpful tips for that.
At $99, it falls into the ‘if you have a teenager in the family, buy this and use it’ category.”
Now – here we go. There are times in a life, or in a world, where a single idea, conceived, committed to, and followed through, can bring about the most breathtaking change.
SKYE’S LINKS 08/11/22
Attorney General Garland's New American Gestapo, the FBI, raided Trump's home Mar-A-Largo. The 'Crat’s are very very desperate:
FBI Raids Former President Donald Trump’s Home
Now for the fun! The Deep State is throwing Wray and his FBI under the bus due to unexpected intensity of blowback over raid:
Deep State Infighting: DOJ Fingers FBI for Mar-a-Lago Raid Disaster
And… Here is a cogent that the panicked authoritarian response to the pandemic heralded peak woke:
With several more darn good reasons for hope…
THE ROTTEN SHAM THAT IS THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
A festering rot of racial animosity exists in our society that we willfully ignore socially and politically. It is a rot that eats away at the flesh of our civil society and spoils the greatness of our multicultural nation.
Progressives continually tell us we have blinders on when it comes to racism in American society. They’ve shoved their ideological solution of anti-racism to force us to “deconstruct” what they believe is an inherently deep-seated racist nation.
I, as a black American, am supposed to rejoice in the presence of our self-appointed saviors, but I peeked behind the veil and saw who they really are.
RUSSIA’S EXPERIMENT OF DE-MODERNIZATION HAS FAILED
The post-Soviet transformation took Russia from a fledgling democracy to a corrupt autocracy.
But, since the start of the war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has taken a new turn, which amounts to a resolute top-down effort at reversing what progress has been achieved in modernizing the state system, economy and society.
The paradox of resorting to the old Soviet way of war based on the massive application of force, while having neither the human resources nor the industrial base necessary to carry it out, undercuts whatever small gains Russian forces are able to make in Donbas (Svoboda.org, June 24).
With every delivery of Western weapon systems, the Armed Forces of Ukraine take a step forward in modernization, while the Russian military falls back to unsustainable World War II patterns (Republic.ru, June 24).
WE ARE THE GENERATION RONALD REAGAN WARNED US ABOUT
We are that generation. And we have an accounting with nature’s limitations, given there is always a corrective, not a nice one, but remediation nonetheless for every excess.
There is an antidote. But it seems well beyond this generation’s capacity.
ONE MORE SCOTUS BLOCKBUSTER TO COME
As TTPers have learned, overturning Roe v. Wade may not be the Supreme Court’s most dramatic decision this year.
Instead, its ruling on West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency could prove far more consequential. It could literally upend how our government works.
For the better.
WV v EPA asks whether important policies that impact the lives of all Americans should be made by unelected D.C. bureaucrats or by Congress. This SCOTUS could well decide that ruling by executive agency fiat is no longer acceptable.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY USING YOUR SIXTH SENSE
We’re all familiar of course with the five senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch; but we have another whole world of sensation that is often overlooked… and it’s central to our power to change our habits – and our lives - for the better.
You’re already familiar with this “sixth sense,” and though it may still hold plenty of mystery for you, what I’m talking about is not something mystical or hypothetical. It is our felt sense.
You know it when you say things like:
SKYE’S LINKS 06/23/22
Good news! More and more people are tuning out the lying news media - except for Fox:
New Reuters Survey Finds That Trust In Mainstream News Is Rapidly Declining
Biden’s America:
Rabobank: Like Riding A Bicycle
Did you know that the FDA receives about 40% of its multibillion dollar annual budget from pharmaceutical company payments whose explicit purpose is to accelerate their drug approvals?
Efficacy Estimates For Pfizer’s Vaccine For Young Children Come Under Scrutiny
IT’S NOT UP TO US TO PROVE ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED – IT’S UP TO THE VOTE-COUNTERS TO PROVE THEY AREN’T
Elections will not legitimize any government if they are rigged.
We must end the absurdity whereby a private corporation can be hired to count our votes and then refuse to prove to us exactly how it got the final numbers.
If the system is not completely transparent and auditable, you can never be confident in it. You can be completely justified in suspecting that it is fraudulent. When the public no longer trusts those who count the votes, then the outcome will be chaos.
The 2020 election was rigged, but it is not up to us to prove that. So what about the next election?
COLOMBIA COMMITS ELECTORAL SUICIDE
They did, after all, fight a 60-year war against Marxist narcoterrorists, with only a few university wokesters defending them.
So it was shocking news that on Sunday (6/19), Colombians went and elected a former M-19 narcoguerrilla named Gustavo Petro, president, turning one of the most conservative countries in the region to the far left for the first time.
The freak belonged to the M-19 narcoterrorist outfit that operated in the 1980s and 1990s, aligning itself at some point with Pablo Escobar himself. How could this happen? Here are a half-dozen possible reasons.
THE MAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE IS NOT REALLY THERE
We have a president who doesn’t even pretend to be working night and day to beat back inflation, save the economy from a recession or tackle rampant crime and growing political violence.
He looks to be on automatic pilot when the nation desperately needs strong leadership. Through May, the president spent 188 full or partial days away from the White House, on a pace to spend 553 days away over a full term – the most of any modern president
This is more than bad optics. It’s a sign Biden is tuned out and merely going through the motions of being president without making a fulsome effort to right the ship of state. He is the president who’s not really there.
BIDEN: WE MUST DESTROY AMERICA’S ECONOMY TO GREEN IT
The Left got what it wanted. Since January 2021 it has all but destroyed the idea of American energy self-sufficiency.
Yet Biden remains shocked that his long-sought victory to make fossil fuels unaffordable is despised by the American people, whose votes he now needs to stay in power.
So how does Biden square his circle of continuing or accelerating policies that ensure high gas prices while trying desperately to lower fuel prices before elections?
The Biden people have three strategies.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY SLAYING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER
Envy is an ugly emotion with awful effects. Many religions forbid or warn against it, as with the 10th commandment in the Old Testament. Storytellers show its awful effects, we all know that it’s bad on a feeling level -- yet envy persists as a powerfully destructive force.
It isn’t about having very little; we aren’t particularly unhappy when we have very little. But we do become very unhappy, depressed, and bitter when we dwell on having less than our neighbor.
Yet there is an antidote to envy: empathy, admiration, and the effective redirection of our initial impulses. It can also help to more fully understand this destructive and bitter emotion.
TAMPON SHORTAGE SOLVED
Tampon Supply Shortage Solved By Emptying Out Tampons In The Men’s Bathrooms
In their desperation to find tampons, some women have resorted to entering the men's restroom and taking tampons designated for trans men.
"As a lady, I would normally never enter a dirty, disgusting men's restroom for any reason," explained Ann Elizabeth, "but I'm completely out of tampons while the men's restrooms are stocked with an abundance of tampons that haven't even been touched!"
According to sources, this simple trick of women getting their tampons from the dispensers in the men's room has swept the nation and completely brought the tampon shortage to an end.
THE SUBORDINATE CITIZEN
I recently led a group of about 100 citizens on a tour of Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.
Contrast this to the tens of thousands of foreign nationals now mustering to cross illegally into the United States this summer, as exampled in the video above. They follow the already 2 million who’ve entered the country unlawfully since Joe Biden became president.
Does any foreign national worry about being tested for COVID-19, much less fear being turned away if he tests positive or lacks proof of vaccination?
Or do we scrutinize far more carefully U.S. citizens entering their own country legally than we do noncitizens crossing our borders unlawfully?
SKYE’S LINKS 06/16/22
Uvalde and beyond. That figure is $433 more than March. Want to bet it will be over $6,000 by end of summer?
Inflation to Cost Families an Extra $5,520 Per Year, Up from Last Projection
Perhaps this has something to do with why mass shootings are increasing; 35% to 40% of under 50 years old US poll respondents support assassination of politicians that they consider dangerous; what could possibly go wrong?
Enjoy watching the video of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) take Xiden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to the woodshed. This is such bad news for 'Crats; most Americans know that the Xiden administration has abetted fuel price increases to crush fossil fuels.
Poll: Most Believe Biden Admin Allowing Gas Prices to Rise to Get Americans off Fossil Fuels
WHO’S GUILTY OF INCITING INSURRECTION?
Has it not occurred to them – especially when faced with the loss of the House & Senate in a few months -- that the Democrat Senate Majority Leader can be seen as guilty of inciting insurrection that includes assassination attempts of a Supreme Court Justice?
WE MUST GIVE UKRAINE THE TIME TO WIN
“Putin comparing himself to Peter the Great (6/10): ‘During the war with Sweden, Peter the Great didn't conquer anything, he took back what had always belonged to us, even though all of Europe recognized it as Sweden's. It seems now it's our turn to get our lands back.’ Beware when small men acquire great power and grand dreams. Putin is a thug, a petty thief and chekist who believes he is a mighty emperor. End his imperial fantasy now because his ambitions begin in Ukraine, they won't end there.” –Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion
We must have the patience to support the Ukrainians. A strategically bankrupt, selfish and impatient French approach will only encourage future aggression.
The Ukrainians have fought for the right to determine how this war ends. We must give them time to retake all their territory and inflict a military defeat on Russia. If that also humiliates Russia, that is the price they must pay for their brutality, destruction and unwarranted aggression.
We must prove that the democracies of the world have the resilience, unity and perseverance to resist the coercion and aggression of all of this era’s techno-authoritarian regimes.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH RITUALS FOR EXCELLENCE
As the great American psychologist, William James said well over a hundred years ago:
“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.”
Unfortunately for James, it turns out that the “miserable human being” he was describing was himself! Sometimes we can teach best what we most need to learn, and apparently James was quite good at that regarding habits.
So how do we establish strong, positive, and consistent habits? We create rituals that hold us to those habits.
SKYE’S LINKS 06/09/22
Got food? Got fuel? Got investments? Thanks to fanatical Xiden green policies and a hyped-up money supply, inflation is going to get a lot worse, especially for food and fuel, the coming economic downturn is going to be brutal.
But look at the bright side – the worse this will all be, the worse will be the Dem Wipe-Out in November!
Looming Price-Hikes On Food Set To Hit Americans Even Harder This Fall
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy and I am a retard
The Top 10 Creepiest and Most Dystopian Things Pushed by the World Economic Forum
THE COMING SUPREME COURT DECISION MORE IMPORTANT THAN ABORTION OR GUNS
The press has focused on the Dobbs case because the Supreme Court will use it to sweep Roe v. Wade into the dustbin of history. The ruling will bring a lot of emotion from both sides, as 49 years of prayer finally are answered.
Likewise, NYSRPA II will get a lot of attention because the association likely will succeed in ending New York's draconian restrictions on carrying a pistol to protect oneself.
However, the Supreme Court case that matters the most this year is West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. This is why.
COMMUNISM STILL HAUNTS RUSSIA
Russia is a superficially Europeanized society that sustained more than 70 years of communism. When the Soviet system finally collapsed in 1991, the result was not stability but a decade of near-anarchy. With such an inheritance, Vladimir Putin’s tyranny followed organically.
Mr. Putin has been described accurately as a fascist, owing to his cult of personality and ferocious ultranationalist assault on Ukraine. It is also true that Mr. Putin has been Soviet in his style of rule. He has amassed more personal power than any Russian since Joseph Stalin.
Many were naive when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, thinking communism was consigned to an irrecoverable past. The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us.
TRUMPOLOGY
Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections.
The disaster of the Biden Administration has been a godsend for Trump. Had Biden simply plagiarized the successful Trump agenda, there would have followed no border disaster, no energy crisis, no hyperinflation, and no calamitous flight from Afghanistan.
How ironic that the Biden catastrophe revived a Trump candidacy. Biden likely will cause the Democrats to lose Congress. His pick of a dismal Kamala Harris as vice president has likely ensured, for now, fewer viable Democrat presidential candidates in 2024.
So, will Trump run? Some logic might dictate that Trump not try a second campaign.
VOTER FRAUD TODAY, VOTER FRAUD TOMORROW, VOTER FRAUD FOREVER!
Last week, the New York Times published a hit piece on my friend Cleta Mitchell.
The Times story lies from the top, beginning with its headline: “Lawyer Who Plotted to Overturn Trump Loss Recruits Election Deniers to Watch Over the Vote.” Mitchell did not “plot to overturn Trump loss,” she worked in a single state, Georgia, to examine and expose election integrity issues there.
This is ostensibly a news story, not an op-ed. But when it comes to protecting the Democrats’ ability to implement a voter fraud strategy, the Times takes no chances. And neither will the Democrats in November.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY TAKING YOUR TIME AT THE START
But what is it that gives us the impression of ease? They seem to take their time. Even when you’re seeing an elite athlete making lightning quick moves, it seems to be moving more slowly than the actual elapsed time. They’re not panicked, they’re not forcing things; the moves look fluid.
How does this help us if we don’ t actually have expertise yet? Let’s find out.