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I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundations safety course before getting my motorcycle license. They have a similar mantra about avoiding something in the road (pu
by natebc 1y ago
I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundations safety course before getting my motorcycle license. They have a similar mantra about avoiding something in the road (puddle, pot hole, car with no taillights).
Look where you want to go.
I don't know where I'm supposed to look right now.
- imglorp 1y ago"Target fixation", ie you semi-autonomously go where you look. I always thought that should have been named "hazard fixation," though.
- natebc 1y agoIndeed. It's quite amazing both how effective it is and how hard it is to not do. The fixation side of this that is. I suppose it's a lizard brain thing. Our ancestors that didn't fixate on the lion got got!
- ratrocket 1y agoYou can consciously harness "target fixation" for good purposes, though. It would be more difficult to talk about that side the coin if it were referred to as "hazard fixation".