Juggling
- 1 minIt’s a tradition at 8th Light for apprentices to learn how to juggle. It has been shown that juggling can have a positive impact on our mind and aside from that, we use it as an exercise to help get our mind away from a problem we might be stuck on so that we start fresh.
It is hard get going at the beginning but then again that’s true for most things in life. What I did when I was learning, was to practice with one hand first and trying to juggle two balls. Once I became effective with that technique I then started using my other hand and increased the amount of balls.
I also found that the above can be used as an analogy to explain concurrency and parallelism. When practicing with one hand, I was juggling balls concurrently. This is to say that though I was using multiple balls, I was holding/throwing only one ball at a time. When I started using my other hand, the task became parallel since now I was catching/throwing multiple balls at the same time.
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