Walter Carrington aced it in his comments about ageing. 

(I'm quoting from memory - can a reader out there direct Chancer to the source?)

"Our mind doesn't age in the same way that our behaviour does."

A lot of smart people are dumb.

Real Intelligence is not measured by IQ or EQ alone because they fail to assess one critical factor:

How well can you adapt to change?

The insightful FM's final book was called: "The Universal Constant in Living."

And what is this universal constant? Can you guess?

It will be the most banal thing you can imagine, and it has nothing to do with:

My teacher Marjorie Barstow asked me that question in 1986.

She was sitting on a high bench in Cremorne Point – looking into Sydney’s sparkling Harbour - and I had just returned from a jaunt down below.

“What do you mean Marj?” I asked innocently.

In most human cultures, we have a bias to being upright.

In school, we are told to sit up straight. If we meditate, we are encouraged to be upright. People spend many hours trying to sit up straight – mostly failing at it.

It’s carried over to the Alexander culture – with ‘use police’ on the lookout for slumpers!

In their wonderfully informative book – "The Body Has A Mind of Its Own" – the Blakeslee family authors tell us the story of people with disorganised Body Schema.

Body Schema – as a quick primer for recent readers – is how you know you have moved. It is a collection of areas in your brain that reports sensory activity and confirms that, for example, you just moved your arm. 

With all those double negatives, weirdly it comes out as:

Nobody Doesn’t Know Nofink --> Everyone Knows Everything.

Hmmm. However, in the mind of my 5 year old daughter it was very clear:

In front of me – on the 202 bus in Sydney – was an irritating romantic couple.

Or so I thought at first. First, the coupled blocked my view out the front of the bus; second, they talked too loud; third, they kept doing “romantic” things that annoyed me. And I thought:

"They are an annoying couple."