Betsy sports or ?

[Sunshine1]

Hi Besty,

Was wondering what you liked better? Sports or gardening? Do you have any idea what spatial ability is? I don't.

I suck at math and how about you?

Aimee

[Betsy]

I have always like gardening better than working my butt off chasing a ball. My dad and grandfather both had large gardens (grandpa had a small farm) and it brings back some of my best memories.

Even now, I'd rather dig in the dirt than throw a ball around. I really enjoy digging and picking grew and look forward to waking each morning to see what ripened overnight (most veggies grow and ripen at night for picking in the AM when they taste the best). Ask me about a gardening problem, and I likely know the solution off the top of my head but ask me about solving a logistical problem, and I struggle.

I remember when I used to move news crews around the country on a moments notice and I always needed to take a couple minutes away from the newdesk to figure it out. It used to drive news directors nuts but I can't recall any time I totally screwed it up. I don't do that anymore but even now with breaking news, often find myself wanting/needing to take 20 focused breaths before doing it. I call it taking time to breathe which some of my coworkers don't do and it usually results in them making impulsive, wrong decisions about how to attack the monster at hand.

As a kid and then a teen, I really liked down hill skiing and had great dreams of being a an Olympic skier. My parents had neither the funds nor resources to help me pursue that, but I was always in ski club every year.

I also got into bike riding as a teen and used to do a fair amount of long distance rides...20-25 miles, both racing and leisurely. Bike riding is something that stuck with me (as long as it isn't a million degrees out at which point my favorite sport becomes going to the movies or the mall to window shop) until I crashed my bike being reckless and flying downhill at speeds I probably should have died at. That broke my body up pretty good and is still causing problems years later.

I never had much of a problem with salt when I was doing either as long as I stayed hydrated and kept up salt intake (just like I do when I am in my garden with the heat on---but I finally got a good hat for that and it is much better now)

Spatial ability is the ability to recognize how much space is around you...like not hitting other cars when you park and knowing where the doors are in the middle of the night in your apartment. Here's more info: http://www.ul.ie/~mearsa/9519211/newpage2.htm

I have horrible depth perception when parking...my car's butt always sticks out but I can parallel park with few inches to spare on either end. That's a necessary evil one must learn to do when going into NYC.

I was decent at math (algebra, geometry, etc) when I was kid but calculus in college really did a number on me and I needed to take remedial courses on it. I'm much more of a right sided brain person. Checkbooks are a struggle for me. http://brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html#Linear

Betsy

[Sunshine1]

Hi Betsy,

I just couldn't resist asking you about the sports because of all those generalized studies that are done. Thank you for the links and it made me remember the time when I was a kid and actually walked right into a wall and come to think about it? I can't even ride a bike either!

I rode horses but never tried sking. Maybe a study could be done on the need for speed with CAH? Anything for a study...just playing.


I wasn't into school at all and struggled with college algerbra until I got a professor that reminded me of Jerry Garcia and was able to explain math to bricks. Although, I enjoyed business math because I learned to budget my beer money at the time.

From the Link, I'm a left brain person.

Thanks,

Aimee