Bummer

[Flightstopper]

Hunted with us in the "waaaay back when he was a young buck" and wasn't afraid to get out of the blind to get shooting.

I remember seeing him on a goose hunting show back around the time he was playing. Was amazed at the time how far past straight up he went and dropped a goose. Recoil bout rocked him off his feet and everybody with him made sure he was aware of that

[Rick]

At the time he was hunting with us, I was running big goose spreads, and he was stuck on ducks, even though it was during the 30 day and 3 duck years, when just the 3 could be a bear to get. Don't recall him ever going with my party, but he liked hunting with a young coonass who'd take him crazy places most wouldn't go to kill ducks. Also remember Todd bragging on his shooting.

[vincentpa]

My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

I think at least a part of it, if true, was hinted at in Outlier.

Lefties are outsiders in a right-handed world. To compensate with being an outsider or the liberty that comes with it, however you want to look at it, they are statistically different.

It is also a good mental exercise to learn to do things opposite handed. In a right-handed world, lefties are all but forced to engage in this mental exercise and to do so at a young age. Try switching some routine thing. It makes the brain work, which is a good thing.

I would never describe the left handed members of my family as being more creative, artistic, free-thinking than the righties. It may simply be nothing more than when you observe a righty, you do not identify them as such. However, when you observe a lefty doing the same thing, you do identify them as such since it is different and unusual and it is nothing more than observation bias.

Yeah. Whatever.

[SpinnerMan]

My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

I think at least a part of it, if true, was hinted at in Outlier.

Lefties are outsiders in a right-handed world. To compensate with being an outsider or the liberty that comes with it, however you want to look at it, they are statistically different.

It is also a good mental exercise to learn to do things opposite handed. In a right-handed world, lefties are all but forced to engage in this mental exercise and to do so at a young age. Try switching some routine thing. It makes the brain work, which is a good thing.

I would never describe the left handed members of my family as being more creative, artistic, free-thinking than the righties. It may simply be nothing more than when you observe a righty, you do not identify them as such. However, when you observe a lefty doing the same thing, you do identify them as such since it is different and unusual and it is nothing more than observation bias.

Yeah. Whatever.

Enlightening post as always Vince. Good to see you again.

[Glimmerjim]

My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

I think at least a part of it, if true, was hinted at in Outlier.

Lefties are outsiders in a right-handed world. To compensate with being an outsider or the liberty that comes with it, however you want to look at it, they are statistically different.

It is also a good mental exercise to learn to do things opposite handed. In a right-handed world, lefties are all but forced to engage in this mental exercise and to do so at a young age. Try switching some routine thing. It makes the brain work, which is a good thing.

I would never describe the left handed members of my family as being more creative, artistic, free-thinking than the righties. It may simply be nothing more than when you observe a righty, you do not identify them as such. However, when you observe a lefty doing the same thing, you do identify them as such since it is different and unusual and it is nothing more than observation bias.

That's a good point, Spinner. I've got to admit that you're good at looking through the perceived obvious.
When you speak of the mental exercise involved in learning to be somewhat ambidextrous, years back I remember that it was said by some that children that have difficulty with speaking, writing, etc. were often not crawlers as children. For whatever reason they walked very rapidly and almost bypassed the crawling stage. They would go so far as to have young kids go back and crawl, as it theoretically bridged the halves of the brain to one degree or another. I don't know if that is still considered valid or has been disproven, but kind of an interesting concept.
I have also heard it said that Einstein's brain had a unique bridge of some sort (?) between the right and left halves. I honestly don't know the facts or details of that though, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Glimmerjim]

My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

I think at least a part of it, if true, was hinted at in Outlier.

Lefties are outsiders in a right-handed world. To compensate with being an outsider or the liberty that comes with it, however you want to look at it, they are statistically different.

It is also a good mental exercise to learn to do things opposite handed. In a right-handed world, lefties are all but forced to engage in this mental exercise and to do so at a young age. Try switching some routine thing. It makes the brain work, which is a good thing.

I would never describe the left handed members of my family as being more creative, artistic, free-thinking than the righties. It may simply be nothing more than when you observe a righty, you do not identify them as such. However, when you observe a lefty doing the same thing, you do identify them as such since it is different and unusual and it is nothing more than observation bias.

Yeah. Whatever.

[SpinnerMan]

That's a good point, Spinner. I've got to admit that you're good at looking through the perceived obvious.

10,000 hours of practice

[Glimmerjim]

That's a good point, Spinner. I've got to admit that you're good at looking through the perceived obvious.

10,000 hours of practice

Wow! You played with the Beatles?