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In mountain biking (to use a sport where often the cost of failure is high) you must quickly identify the oncoming obstacles e.g. a rock. The thing is not to fo
by wintermutestwin 4y ago
In mountain biking (to use a sport where often the cost of failure is high) you must quickly identify the oncoming obstacles e.g. a rock. The thing is not to focus on the rock or else you will end up running into it.
Pessimism is a trap because, on the surface it seems very logical, but having a pessimistic mindset will insidiously influence your behavior towards negative outcomes.
- HPsquared 4y agoThe self-fulfilling prophecy, in other words.
- InitialLastName 4y agoFurther, in mountain biking and other similar sports, you have to make your body move as if your action will succeed; nothing will undermine your effectiveness more than your lizard-brain's self-defense movements.
- lazide 4y agoKinda. You have to be aware of the rock. focusing on the rock is the problem. You start knowing where the rocks are, and then you move on to the planning the better outcome. Being unable to move on to the better outcome is the pessimism trap. I’ve run across people that work so hard to be optimistic, that they clearly are denying the possibility of a problem - they are no longer aware of the rock. Like mountain biking and ignoring (to the point of forgetting/not believing!) there are rocks, it causes some very concerning behaviors. One of them literally kept steering for the rocks because she kept forgetting they existed.
- avgcorrection 4y agoAm I a pessimist if I never get into mountain biking on account of the risks the activity would expose my body to?