Here’s a fun fact to know and tell your friends: Like all the other animals with legs, you were born knowing how to walk – it’s in your DNA. What you had to learn is how to balance on two legs. In that sense, you are more like dancing bears at the circus (luckily, without being chained and abused) than you might care to admit. One way or another, your circus act must go on for the rest of your life, so you’d best keep up your technique. Here are some strategies: