Re: Staving off brain decay

Dave Smith wrote:
As you get older, perhaps it's particularly hard to acquire new skills
as distinct from practising old ones.

If you get the skill of learning new skills you're away.

It has taken me about five times as long, if not longer, to learn the trumpet, but I'm very pleased to have done it (not that I've mastered it by any means! I can play some tunes that I'm fond of, but that is it, so far). I have my eyes on the didgeridoo next. I'm going to get an acrylic one when I'm next in Sydney, they're easier to learn.

It isn't simply perversity, there's an article in the BMJ this year, I forget which month, showing that playing the digeridoo for half an hour each day can improve lung capacity and breathing hugely. I've always been interested in the idea of 'circular breathing' as well, it'd be fund to master that.


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