Who says you can’t start a monthly challenge on the 15th? Self-improvement is hard enough without setting arbitrary time constraints on it. I say, when you feel a passing interest in working on something, you better seize the moment. God knows when that feeling will come around again.
For the remainder of August, and perhaps through mid-September, I’ll be working on my reaction time. (Technically, reaction time is a cognitive process, while reflexes are not, but for this post I’ll be using the terms interchangeably.)
I probably don’t have to tell you that your reaction time gets worse with age. (I don’t know about you, but I have yet to find anything that gets better.) Left to their own devices, our cognitive processing time and neuron speeds slow down by milliseconds with each passing decade for even the simplest demands. Milliseconds may not sound like much, but they’re precious when faced with an oncoming tennis ball.
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