You’re tying your shoes wrong – no matter that you’ve been doing it for 70 years and you’ve got it so down pat that you can do it and chew gum at that same time.
Who knew?
The good news? You’re not too old to learn (again) how to tie shoes.
As it turns out, there are two completely different knots, tied with only the most miniscule of differences—one holds and the other does not.
Terry Moore found out he’d been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life when he complained to a salesman that the laces he’d bought were substandard because they wouldn’t stay tied.
In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.)
If you’re gonna change the way you tie shoes after watching this video, you’ll (I’m almost positive) find that it’s not the “slam dunk” that you first think it is.
Things like this are so in-grained they seem like they’re almost genetic, similar to the migration instinct of birds. In some ways, quitting smoking may be easier.
Mind Your ‘Matter’ Concussion and Your Grey Matter
How do we protect children against head injury and concussion?
Grey Matter is, of course, referring to the tissue of your brain—the tissue in question when we talk about brain injury from concussion; which, in her humorous way, she called “Extremely resilient in children to AN injury.”[Note the “an” meaning one single. To multiple…not so much!]
In fact, the risk of permanent brain damage increases EXPONENTIALLY with the number of blows to the head a child receives. The only way to prevent a bad outcome in a head injury (concussion) is to prevent that 1st injury from happening.
She also told you that children are MUCH MORE SUSEPTIBLE to brain injury and even older adolescents. THREE TIMES more likely to have their concussion turn into a “catastrophic” injury than their college age counterparts—AND take almost three times as long to restore to baseline.
As a neuropsychologist working in the field of brain injuries, Kim Gorgens has seen firsthand the damage sports-related impacts can do. And as chair of the State of Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund Board and a member of the Brain Injury Legislative Collaborative, she’s working to shape Colorado law around youth sports injuries.
Gorgens, an assistant clinical professor in the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology, also is the president-elect of the Colorado Neuropsychological Society and has an appointment to the American Psychological Association’s Council on Disability in Psychology.
