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We are (on average/intrinsically) terrible at predicting or even guessing how certain things will behave. A lot of times when you learn something like say skiin
by eftychis 4y ago
We are (on average/intrinsically) terrible at predicting or even guessing how certain things will behave. A lot of times when you learn something like say skiing or diving, a major part of training is to untrain your brain from guessing incorrectly how things will unfold/what is the appropriate action. Try recovering a plane from a stall -- you might be able to guess why something happens, but you have to fight your brain to aim the nose of the plane down. (Again on average.)
- hutzlibu 4y agoWe humans optimized for everything related to our body movement. Of course we have no intuition for how planes behave. And with Ski and co. I would argue it is somewhat intuitive, it is just a new tool that needs learning. But I do not remember learning ski or snowboard felt unintuitive. It was just hard coordinating it, but this is not unlearning to me.
- KineticLensman 4y ago> But I do not remember learning ski or snowboard felt unintuitive. I struggled for years with 'keep your weight on the downhill ski'. When I realised that it sort of meant 'lean downhill' turning on steeps suddenly became a lot easier. This was counter intuitive in that when I turned on a bike, I was invariably leaning in to the turn, not out. It was actually learning to skate on skis that helped me make the transition to better turning.