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Mounds · 12-09-2009, 03:46 PM

Hi fellow posters,

Thanks for all the replies. I sure do feel gifted with lots of interests. Makes learning pretty easy as well.
I think the whole situation comes down to time management. I have to remember that I have a wife, lol. If I spend too much time doing my own things, she starts to voice her discontent (which is fine).
Anyway, the only martial arts I seriously tried are Jiu Jitsu (Jishin Do) and Muay Thai. Did Jiu Jitsu first but didn't think the defenses would work in all situations. Looked at Muay Thai because of the hand to hand aspect of it. I've also tried weapons in the past like tonfa, kama, bo, nunchaku and even throwing knives.
If I'm really honest, I get a lot of my drive from wanting to be a really good dad. I want to be able to defend my family (MA), be healthy enough to see them grow up (MA and cooking), teach them things (books, bugs, fossils), be entertaining for them (guitar) and be able to financially provide for years to come (NLP and horticulture). My parents had a vast amount of knowledge and skills when I was growing up and I want to provide the same thing. In fact, I probably got my tendencies to learn from my parents.
For general knowledge when I was younger, I was at a Grade 12 reading level in Grade 6 (reading Stephen King when others read Goosebumps). I remember the first "big" novel I read was Dean Koontz "Watchers". Took me a month but I did it! When I was 10, I could describe the scientific names of hundreds of insects, all self taught. I would also write letters to insect collectors in SE Asia, claiming to be an entomologist because it was easier than telling them I was a 10 y/o kid. I was attending entomologist meetings at age 13. Not bragging but just saying that the human brain can do much more than it is credited for!

-Tim

12-09-2009, 03:46 PM	#21 (permalink)
Mounds Family Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,853	Hi fellow posters, Thanks for all the replies. I sure do feel gifted with lots of interests. Makes learning pretty easy as well. I think the whole situation comes down to time management. I have to remember that I have a wife, lol. If I spend too much time doing my own things, she starts to voice her discontent (which is fine). Anyway, the only martial arts I seriously tried are Jiu Jitsu (Jishin Do) and Muay Thai. Did Jiu Jitsu first but didn't think the defenses would work in all situations. Looked at Muay Thai because of the hand to hand aspect of it. I've also tried weapons in the past like tonfa, kama, bo, nunchaku and even throwing knives. If I'm really honest, I get a lot of my drive from wanting to be a really good dad. I want to be able to defend my family (MA), be healthy enough to see them grow up (MA and cooking), teach them things (books, bugs, fossils), be entertaining for them (guitar) and be able to financially provide for years to come (NLP and horticulture). My parents had a vast amount of knowledge and skills when I was growing up and I want to provide the same thing. In fact, I probably got my tendencies to learn from my parents. For general knowledge when I was younger, I was at a Grade 12 reading level in Grade 6 (reading Stephen King when others read Goosebumps). I remember the first "big" novel I read was Dean Koontz "Watchers". Took me a month but I did it! When I was 10, I could describe the scientific names of hundreds of insects, all self taught. I would also write letters to insect collectors in SE Asia, claiming to be an entomologist because it was easier than telling them I was a 10 y/o kid. I was attending entomologist meetings at age 13. Not bragging but just saying that the human brain can do much more than it is credited for! -Tim