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0 pointshaswell2y ago0 comments

> I'll never be one of those athletes who lets go of conscious control and runs off muscle memory

A lot of people feel this way, but the reality is that we already do almost everything without conscious control, we just don’t tend to notice.

Not to mention the majority of the systems in our body are also beyond conscious control, and for many, beyond awareness completely (e.g. the nervous system).

The book “Flow” is a really interesting read, and describes how one’s approach to daily life can lead to something closer to that athlete’s state.

This is closer than most people realize.

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hinkley2y ago

There's a whole sub-discipline in UX that talks about the difference between looking at the available information and making the wrong choice, versus making the correct choice but then performing the wrong action anyway. One is a failure of cognition, the other is a failure of the motor cortex.

It's reaching for the green button and hitting the red one instead. It's driving to the store near your office and ending up driving to your office instead. It's forgetting to drop your kid off at daycare.

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