Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn shares his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 by exploring how improving his table tennis game relates to thinking and living in all areas of life.
Five Things I’m Working on in Table Tennis
- Keeping sufficient distance from the table to enable proper stroke mechanics—like keeping sufficient distance from topics to enable proper perspective.
- Generating power by turning body and bending knees in a coordinated manner—like generating creativity by turning ideas and bending conventional wisdom.
- Holding left arm up and out for balance—like holding opposing opinions up and out for intellectual or even spiritual balance.
- Keeping arm loose before hitting the ball and then tightening wrist when hitting the ball—like keeping opinions flexible at first and then tightening views at just the right moment.
- Experience and patience in optimizing specific strokes with specific balls—like experience and patience in optimizing specific reactions to specific challenges (or like optimizing specific Closer To Truth follow-up questions with specific contributor responses).