Video 1 - Playing the Game of Life, by Alan Watts

1. What does our society tell children?

Society tells us as kid that we have to go through all this school and then after school we work a job where we spend years and years trying to get higher up on the food chain and then best part is retirement 

2. What is our society's "preparation for life?"

School starting us into the system at around 5 where we grown up into high school and that last year of high school first year of college we have decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives

3. When one arrives, Watts claims that he or she often feels cheated. Why?

Because life is a game you sit and play for years and years and the end result is just death or close too it.

4. What is the final goal of our society?

Retirement but then we are usually too old to enjoy ourselves and everything we did was completely useless to our life

5. What is the problem with living ever for the future?

When you live for the future you are still living in the present. Lawl Inception. 

Video 2: The Secret of Life 

1. What is the Chinese word for nature? What does it mean?

ziran = that which happens to itself without any control of an outside boss

2. According to Watts, you stop the spontaneous flowering of nature if you do what to it?

By telling the plants you must do it and you stop them..... that did not make since to me honestly.....

3. According to Watts, what are human beings?

The fabric and structure of existence itself

4. What is the secret of life according to Watts?

To be completely with what you are doing with the here and the now and instead of calling it work call it play. 

Video 3: You're Already Awesome

Note: Dr. Judson Brewer is a professor at Yale University's department of psychiatry.

1. What was Dr. Brewer's experience of flow?

He was riding on his bike and he was in such deep focus and he was so present that he just was which is flow. The mental state which a person is fully immersed in the present in a feeling energized focus

2. According to the Harvard study mentioned by Brewer, what percentage of time do we get caught of up thinking?

50 percent of the time this is also included in day dreaming and worrying about the past and the future.

3. Finish the sentence: "A wandering mind is a  _____"

unhappy mind 

4. What happens to the brain during meditation?

Everything is quiet, brain activity is quiet.

5. In nine minutes, the test subject mentioned by Brewer learned the difference between what?

He learned the difference between thinking about the breath versus feeling the breath.

Reflection Question:

Reflection question: How does all of this relate to our yoga practice? How does it relate to killer ball? To performing? Was there an idea in any of these talks that stood out to you? If so, what was it and why?

(If you think that all of this is nonsense, please share those thoughts too! Don't feel like you ought to say things simply to get a good grade. I love it when students say, "I think this is a bunch of crap." Feel free to speak your mind!)

I think that the first one definitely spoke to me because my friend said almost the same thing she told me something along the lines of do what you want because if you do what you hate you are just suffering through life not living it. Also in the second video when he says in death you can't worry so you will be alright.... That hit me like wow never thought of it like that.