SCORING

 

Just recently I enjoyed a roll-up with Barry and Dan in a "threesome" where each kept his own score. Luckily, both Barry and Dan kept the scores of all three of us in their heads, which was good because I did not.

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I made no attempt to keep my score.

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I did not admit this to either of them, but accepted their scoring without question.

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The problem is that if a task is too challenging, my mind selects not to do it

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I am not lazy or stupid but I lack the confidence to get it right so best not to try

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Barry and Dan were both onto it, so good cross check; besides, it didn't really matter if we didn't keep score as it was only a friendly

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NAMES, FACES & RULES ALL ON TOP OF HOW TO BOWL.

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Not remembering names and faces is made worse by the embarrassment of it

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The rules of bowls not only seem endless, but are different depending on the circumstances

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Remembering how you managed to bowl your last good shot is the most difficult especially if someone is constantly telling you how to do it. 

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SELECTIVE MEMORY

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The mind of a dyslexic is tuned to be selective about what it remembers. This process of selection probably starts in primary school when words become the focus of learning

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Albert Einstein quote... "Education is not the learning of fact but the training of the mind to think."

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Words (and curriculum) are the curse of learning for a dyslexic

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A dyslexic only thinks in ideas and pictures.

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Albert Einstein quote... "“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”

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The mind of a dyslexic can remember and develop complex "designs" in great detail, in picture or graphic form.

 

This memory process does not use words. (A picture is worth 1000 words.)

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BEWARE OF EXPERTS

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Beware reading literature published by experts; they are unlikely to be dyslexic

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Dyslexic people rarely publish anything because they are not "qualified" in acedemic terms 

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Non-dyslexic "experts" publishing literature about dyslexia is like a two legged person publishing a book on the problems of only having one leg

 

TECHNIQUE 

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I learnt my bowling technique from one of those tiny paper booklets that drop out of a purchase at the bowls shop, like a bolognaise recipe which drops out of a packet of spaghetti.

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I call it my engineering technique because it uses a pendulum principle to determine the length. There is no muscular action so that you can focus on direction.

 

So at each start, the wood is held up in front of you. The height determines the length.  As you step forward the arm holding the wood freely swings back and then like a pendulum swing forward until you release it.

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Each time at the start, you remember how high it is so that on the next go you can adjust the distance. How easy can it be?

 

The problem is, however hard I have tried, with my dyslexia, I am not able to remember. But I live in hope.

 

My latest plan is to assign numbers 1 to 9 in front of me with the indoor rink dots 3, 6 and 9 and the other numbers in between, with number 1 closest to me. Number 10 will probably end up in the ditch, as maybe 9 and 8.

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Number 6 may be a good starting number which I should be able to determine before stepping onto the mat. The point is, I have a much better chance of remembering whole numbers and I can concentrate on the direction.

 

I don't know what I will do in the summer when we are outside but I will face that when it comes.

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