Steve
Mostly Harmless
Yoshi, with respect, this is where I bow out. But I'll share an anecdote first that will, if notihng else, maybe give you some insight into where I'm coming from.
First, backhanded insinuations about my education are uncalled for. I've also been to college and do enjoy study on my own as well. I would guess that we're among many others who are much the same. I try to presume that the people with whom I'm chatting are at least as smart, if not smarter, than me. It's often true, although i'm happy to allow them to prove otherwise. I would encourage you to do the same.
Okay, the anecdote. My son is approaching teenager-dom. I couldn't be prouder. He's also quite smart. Very smart. While I'm certainly biased, I can say without hyperbole that my two oldest kids are among the top 5% in their schools for practical intelligence and IQ. I only bring this up because it's relevant.
A few years back, there was a kid that my son just didn't get along with. They flat out didn't like each other. What really disturbed me is that my son was working within the rules in such a way that, while he was at least partially to blame for each incident through his actions (and likely engineered each one entirely), the OTHER kid was the one getting into all of the trouble. My son thought he was being clever, laying intellectual and emotional traps for this other kid, creating situations in which the other kid would react poorly. I was very disappointed.
At about this same time, my son was starting to give us problems around the house. I'd ask him to do something and he would do only that and no more. Clean the kitchen would become an argument in which he would try to "define clean." This general attitude was manifesting in many ways. While we called him on it around the house, he was having a lot more success playing these games at school.
The discussion that I had with my son was about a type of person I refer to as a "rules lawyer." These are the people who ignore the spirit of a rule and break the rules by finding the loopholes. They're the people who are the reason we have disclaimers on every advertisement. These are the people who will scrutinize their pizza to find something wrong so that they can demand to be comped. They're people who don't enter into conversations in good faith, who are more interested in showing how clever they are than actually thinking and discussing the matters at hand. I told my son that I didn't want him to be a "rules lawyer." These are the people who, for sport or revenge or whatever reason, use their intelligence to manipulate other people. I choose as a general rule not to associate with them in my day to day life. I don't like them. And I certainly don't want my son to be one of them. Fortunately, he took the lesson to heart.
Ultimately, I don't believe, even after considering your post, that there is a downside to eating one's vegetables. My position is that the spirit of the example is sound: eating healthy is good. No cons. I will also submit that there is no pro to smoking crack. Again, the spirit of the example is, in my opinion, sound. My intent was not to describe to you absolutes. It was to draw a reliable generalization.
In that spirit, there is no downside to crosstraining. I have provided some simple caveats in various posts earlier, including intent/desired outcome, aptitude and time, as well as training methods.
I hope this clears things up. At this point, while I'll keep up with the thread and respond to posts that might take the thread in a new direction, I hope this is sufficient to put at least my own position on the topic of whether there is are cons to crosstraining to bed.
First, backhanded insinuations about my education are uncalled for. I've also been to college and do enjoy study on my own as well. I would guess that we're among many others who are much the same. I try to presume that the people with whom I'm chatting are at least as smart, if not smarter, than me. It's often true, although i'm happy to allow them to prove otherwise. I would encourage you to do the same.
Okay, the anecdote. My son is approaching teenager-dom. I couldn't be prouder. He's also quite smart. Very smart. While I'm certainly biased, I can say without hyperbole that my two oldest kids are among the top 5% in their schools for practical intelligence and IQ. I only bring this up because it's relevant.
A few years back, there was a kid that my son just didn't get along with. They flat out didn't like each other. What really disturbed me is that my son was working within the rules in such a way that, while he was at least partially to blame for each incident through his actions (and likely engineered each one entirely), the OTHER kid was the one getting into all of the trouble. My son thought he was being clever, laying intellectual and emotional traps for this other kid, creating situations in which the other kid would react poorly. I was very disappointed.
At about this same time, my son was starting to give us problems around the house. I'd ask him to do something and he would do only that and no more. Clean the kitchen would become an argument in which he would try to "define clean." This general attitude was manifesting in many ways. While we called him on it around the house, he was having a lot more success playing these games at school.
The discussion that I had with my son was about a type of person I refer to as a "rules lawyer." These are the people who ignore the spirit of a rule and break the rules by finding the loopholes. They're the people who are the reason we have disclaimers on every advertisement. These are the people who will scrutinize their pizza to find something wrong so that they can demand to be comped. They're people who don't enter into conversations in good faith, who are more interested in showing how clever they are than actually thinking and discussing the matters at hand. I told my son that I didn't want him to be a "rules lawyer." These are the people who, for sport or revenge or whatever reason, use their intelligence to manipulate other people. I choose as a general rule not to associate with them in my day to day life. I don't like them. And I certainly don't want my son to be one of them. Fortunately, he took the lesson to heart.
Ultimately, I don't believe, even after considering your post, that there is a downside to eating one's vegetables. My position is that the spirit of the example is sound: eating healthy is good. No cons. I will also submit that there is no pro to smoking crack. Again, the spirit of the example is, in my opinion, sound. My intent was not to describe to you absolutes. It was to draw a reliable generalization.
In that spirit, there is no downside to crosstraining. I have provided some simple caveats in various posts earlier, including intent/desired outcome, aptitude and time, as well as training methods.
I hope this clears things up. At this point, while I'll keep up with the thread and respond to posts that might take the thread in a new direction, I hope this is sufficient to put at least my own position on the topic of whether there is are cons to crosstraining to bed.
