Sunday Newscape Magazine

The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments.  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago is the first biological evidence that musicians' have a perceptual advantage for "speech-in-noise."

So I’ve started lifting weights. OK, I’ve actually lifted one weight, shifting it from one hand to the other, for a couple of days now.  Lifting two weights at the same time was a little too ambitious for my long-delayed return to fitness. So I’m starting out slowly.

You’re a doer…I’m a doer. We’re all doers. Doing is what we do best. You must be engaged! Don’t slow down. DO! Find something to do. Or delegate - give someone else something to do. Keep busy. The busier you are the more important you appear. You are essential! Your world couldn’t survive without your doing. If you didn’t do it, who would? I can’t. I’m too busy with my own doing.

I found an amazing piece to the success puzzle which some of you, including myself, probably did not realize. It came from an unlikely source and woke me up from my baseball coma as the World Series ended and the celebrations began.