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By: It Takes a Village – for a Lot of Things « Teddy Bear Tales

It Takes a Village – for a Lot of Things « Teddy Bear Tales — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:08:54 +0000

[...] learning and relearning new skills. In order to learn something new, you have to repeat it up to 7000 times to burn a simple skill into muscle memory, and up to 20,000 to make a complex skill perma… So I guess I might be a tad unreasonable in assuming that after only four months, the customers [...]

By: Terry Laughlin

Terry Laughlin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:27:06 +0000

Tom – Congratulations and thanks for sharing your uplifting story with us. Stay focused on Continuous Improvement and the rewarding, empowering experiences will keep coming.

By: DundeeChest

DundeeChest — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:48:52 +0000

Hi Terry,

I thought I would share my experiences of learning to swim recently, to perhaps give some hope to your readers.

After a bowel operation in the New Year, I decided to take up swimming, to regain some fitness. On March 16th 2010 I could swim 2 lengths of front crawl before spluttering to a halt. That day I met with a TI swimmer who showed me the potential benefits of fishlike swimming. Since then I have concentrated on the drills in Easy Freestyle, and the improvements have been striking.

On May 2nd I swam 2 miles in 1hr 6 minutes, inside.

On May 23rd I swam 2.5K in the Derwent Water Wild Swim, organised by the Outdoor Swimming Society.

Yesterday I swam 5.4K, and felt fresh, if a little sunburnt, afterwards.

On September 11th I’ll be swimming 10K in Ulswater, Cumbria.

So I might not have the child-like ability to learn without apparently listening, but with a bit of focus on the things that matter, I have made improvements!

Thank you, Terry, for your inspirational teaching methods!