Cognition

you know side and then a bad scorecard right and you'd be amazed and statistically statistics show that one significantly bad shot can lead to as many as nine poor shots on your scorecard right and now by the way it doesn't have to be you know right in a row if you would but this idea that we're we're focusing on these negative um shots uh It's not subjective.

It absolutely happens, right? And I think one of the ways that you can limit some of these or make sure that they don't continue when you hit them is a rock solid pre-shot routine, right? I mean, there's tons of biomechanical studies that are crystal clear on this, that cognitive stress directly transfers, or excuse me, translates to, excuse me, neuromuscular tension.

right so cognitive stress translates to neuromuscular tension what that means is when you're thinking about stress related stuff you get tense And when you're tense and you're anxious over a bad shot, your grip pressure spikes, your forearms might tighten, your muscles literally start to fight against each other, not work worth each other.

So you go from this, you know, you know, super smooth, you know, kind of like laissez faire kind of swing like to this, you know, kinematic sequence that is all jacked up in your swing because you're so tight right um the the easiest analogy i can think of this is like this the perfect practice swing and then you step over the ball and it doesn't feel anything like that right and we all we've all seen that we've all done that right but the when you when you get super anxious and you get super mad right the likelihood that you hit a good shot significantly drops so you're already setting yourself up for failure and by the way this is not news to anybody out there listening to this okay but a pre-shot routine a repeatable good pre-shot routine acts as kind of like this neurological almost like a circuit breaker we just had a whirlpool installed so i got a whole education about circuit breakers that i didn't need right but that's kind of what i what a a repeatable uh pre-shot routine does right it gets in the way right um and kind of short circuits all the negativity right it's the bridge between like conscious thought and natural athletic motion it studies have proven it lowers your heart rate it clears your working internal memory and it signals to your body that hey man it is time to execute you know by daniel good swing all right or a familiar natural movement and a rigid pre-shot routine excuse me is the ultimate defense against multiple bad shots and what i mean by rigid is like look it is the same thing every single time all right i have a little bit of this in my pre-shot routine i'm sure my pre-shot routine could be better but I always, and I mean always, I step up to the ball.

I put, you know, whether it's a tee shot or not, I put my left foot right next to the ball, my toe in line with the ball, right? And I count backwards five steps.

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And I, I w- Here's my kind of quick description of this essay, Michael, and you can tell me what you think about it, if you think this is a good description.

I think what Esposito is doing in her essay on social, um, on cultural memory and social forgetting, is that she's kind of dotting the I's and crossing the T's, uh, on what Luhmann says happens to human subjects, to human cognition.

In particular, in particular, the faculty of memory.

When we live as we do, uh, amidst and constantly entangled, enmeshed, maybe enmeshed is the best word.

It was never assisted ...

It was never involved in the problem of forgetting.

And so one of the very original things that Esposito does is she begins by saying, "If we take Luhmann seriously, before we start talking about media and what media does to human cognition, let's see if we can rethink how we think about memory in the first place."

Mm-hmm.

These are the things that I want to tackle in my career.

In terms of my kids' lifetime, uh, I'm thinking, you know, full human expansion of human cognition into, uh, AI, full, uh, immersion in the internet of your cognitive abilities, um, having no limitation for what you think as bottlenecked by needing to read the Wikipedia article first, uh, to have the data to inform your thoughts.

Um, having communication with anyone that you want to, uh, unrestricted by this, you know, f- flapping air past meat on your f- face.

Um, i- it's a, you know, a, a means of communication that's ridiculously prone to being misunderstood.

And then there was another two-month IF study on cognitive and mood outcomes that was published in August 2024.

It's called Cognitive Functions, Mood, and Sleep Quality After Two Months of Intermittent Fasting.

They found that participants scored lower on anxiety, depression, and fatigue and higher on cheerfulness and energy at the end of the two-month study.

And then we have an animal model.

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So we know about fatigue, we know about motor fatigue, we know about... subtle changes in cognition, but also when we assess them, we see subtle changes in gait pattern, changes in balance, fluctuations in symptoms that can be dramatic at times.

And for a person with MS to then have an assessment with a physio who understands those things becomes truly valuable.

And also the fact that if you can set people up nice and early with fitness programs, with strength programs, and advise them about all those really important lifestyle factors around living with MS.

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Welcome back to The Cognition Project, a series exploring the stories of the researchers who created the field of cognitive science and helped to shape it, resulting in a new science of the mind.

An important thread of cognitive science research explored how well symbolic models, systems of rules and symbols, could capture thought.

We've heard hints of this in the stories so far, but some of the best demonstrations of this approach came from the work of Herbert Simon and Alan Newell.

John and I both took his class on ACT-STAR back, I think, in probably 1983 when the book first came out.

It was a small seminar class, and we had very good conversations in there relating about SOAR versus ACT-STAR and things like that, which actually gets echoed much later on.

It's called The Common Model of Cognition.

which started as something called Standard Model of Mind.

Christian Levier actually came up with the idea at a AAAI symposium that he and I had organized, going back to an earlier conversation that we'd had.