A schizoid personality

My wife was thinking that at one point there will be no more sporting records to break. I mean human physiology has its limits, and our physiological evolution is way slower than our recent learning pace. So at one point all training techniques will not be able to make a human body go over its physical limitation…

At that point all sportsmen/sportswomen of a specific discipline will just tend towards the ultimate goal of the maximum record attainable for a human being, knowing it could not be break anymore.

Turns out, researching a bit the subject, that this theory is actually right. The IRMES (Institute for Biomedical Research and Sports Epidemiology in Paris) backed by four other university and medical research facilities produced a report stating than:

• in 1896 (first modern Olympic Games) 75% of the human integrated muscle biology was used to break world records.
• In 2007 Athletes are using 99% of the physical maximum potential.
• Half of the World records will not have improved more than 0,05% by 2027.
• The wall will be hit in 2060, when no more records could be break without substantial physical/genetic evolution.

Will we then bend dimensions and space time continuum to break those physical limitations with technology? (my wife’s idea, not mine) or will humankind start working on its mind improvement at last? Because let me remind you that we are very far from using 99% of the potential of our brains…

Who knows, starting 2060 we might see “Olympics Mind Games” with several disciplines like: spirit, mind, creativity, theory, culture, imagination, intelligence, troubleshooting…

Note: Reference article -> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001552

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It’s not easy to be schizoid with a child. I am not a monster and I perfectly know what my daughter needs in terms of affection.

Since I cannot provide on a steady pace in that area, I came up with some strategies:

First: The “silly” Dad:

It’s easy to jump, say silly things, and do weird dances and funny faces. Of course she loves having a “silly” dad. As she grow up I shift a little bit towards sarcasms, counter truths and “questions out of the blue” this way she’s kept on her toes and her dad is present in her everyday life.

Second: The “serious” Dad:

When she started kindergarten, I became very involved with the homework (a little less now that my wife has more regular hours). It provides a face of seriousness and caring about school and activities there as well as her friends and teachers, a world she will navigate in more and more so it is important that her dad seemed involved.

Third: The “story teller” Dad:

This is OUR thing. Since she’s two years old I am creating a new story every evening for her (well excluding evenings where I am not here or when it is too late, on average it’s 275 to 300 stories per year). Of course it evolved from basic “good v/s bad” tales to full fledge sagas spreading over several weeks with hidden messages. Now days, she picks a main character (animal, fantasy figure, human being, plant, etc…) and a simple difficulty or problem the character will have to face, and I built on it. I now even push her to try and figure some solutions or plots in her story to build up her imagination.

This is by far “the bond”. If I was to disappear today, that will be how she will remember me: “My daddy was inventing a story for me every night”.

She is now seven and entering her phase of “role models”. I am being careful in my roles of silly, serious and story teller dad, adapting slowly to that important period. For sure she will not have a socially extrovert role model, but she should be polite, open to differences, and overall I am not compromising her being a “good citizen” one day.

Evidently will come a time where she will be able to tell her dad is a bit “off”, I hope by then she will have the fundamentals to understand, and that the link with the mother will have once again become strong, because I will not be able to deal in the matters of boyfriends and such with the emotional attachment a teen might be waiting for.

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Today we went to the Omnimax see « Deep Sea ». It’s not the first time we go to an Omnimax, but I had never pay much attention to their “slogan”.Right before the show a deep voice states the obvious advantages of Omnimax (Canadian invention, makes me SOOOOO proud ;-)  hum…), sound, giant dome screen, mega projector, etc… then the speech ends with that anodyne sentence:

“Omnimax: It’s bigger than your imagination!”

Well they obviously have no idea what they are talking about… And if they have a bit of imagination, they could find less flat slogans…

Imagination my friend, as no limits… Just going to the Omnimax and coming back ( I was not driving), I had already enough in my head to challenge some cable network evening programs…

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