Not every drop in function is an existential threat to our health, meaning, and performance
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Health, meaning, and performance depend on three related factors: the ability to function at the required level, the ability to avoid injury, and the relational awareness to continually reshape how functional parts relate to one another as a whole. When function is overemphasized, every decline in function—and every injury—can feel like an existential threat to performance.
My book is free and can be read online. "Our greatest existential threat is everyone losing awareness of the relationships that connect every part to the whole."
In the 1990s, while working as a business analyst, I explored how we could collaborate online by separating functional connectivity from face-to-face interaction. Later, I focused on training the relational aspects of face-to-face interaction for people who could connect only functionally. Now I run LifeSkills21.club
Train the relational - in and around St Albans

Basketball for Older adults and adult beginners. Mixed. (5)Wed 28 OctLoreto College, St Albans
Basketball. All-ability adults. Mixed. (7)Sun 01 NovWatford
Late paymentThu 31 DecAL3 5LH
Swimming. All-ability adults. Mixed.Date and time is TBDLocation is TBD
Hello, I hope you are well.
Early in my career, I focused on separating the functional from the relational aspects of face-to-face interaction. The functional moved online. Later, I focused on training the relational aspects for those who only see the functional. Today, @LifeSkills21.club, I use basketball and swimming to provide practical, experiential training in relational awareness. This approach is different from the functional methods typically used in basketball coaching and swimming instruction. We train people to relate as a whole.
My free book "Not Everything is an existential crisis" can be read @ https://jonthorne.my.canva.site/
You can learn more about me by watching this video.
Always happy to chat
St Albans, UK
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.
