Lol, in a distant past I read a book about it. It was a book about riding a motorcycle (translate to eng: "Upper Half of the Motorcycle"). The author was a professor in physiology and psychopathology at the university of Heidelberg, Germany. And riding a bike was his hobby. So he wrote a book about it. The first half of the book itself was just about learning theory, how the brain(s) work and all the stuff. And the second half was about riding a bike itself. (Not interesting here)
He divides the brain into the unconscious and conscious parts. The conscious one can do everythig. But is is faulty and slow and very limited capacity. It is used for learning. And after you learned something, the task is handed over to the unconscious brain, and the conscious one has then capaticy for new stuff to learn (slowly). The unconscious brain works way better, way faster, way more reliable. But it needs to be programmed (or trained) by the conscious brain before.
Unfortunately, if you are in danger, the conscious brain gets active and tries to help the unconscious one. (Making things worse.) He wrote a nice experiment about it:
Draw a line on the gound, 30 cm (12 inches) wide. And then you must walk on that white line. Is this a problem? No.
Then build a plank, 30 cm wide, raise it 10 cm over ground. Difficult? Not at all.
Raise the plank 1 meter above ground. Difficult? Not really, but it starts here.
Raise the plank 5 meter above ground. Difficult? Yes, now it is.
And now pout this plank inbetween the Petronas Twin Towers, 400 meter over gound. Most of us would go down to the knees and use all four legs!
Here the conscious brain senses danger and takes over the contol. Of something that is basically a very simple motoric task. Up in the air, the conscious brain proofs again, it is way inferior to the unconscious brain doing the ground walk.
Okay, this is comparing apples and bananas and the red light of a video camera isn't killing you, if something goes wrong. But it is about the same concept.
Bottom line: nothing is more true than:
rogerch “Stop thinking and just play!”
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