ARLIA YUHANIS
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Riding a Bicycle
Let’s Begin…
How long did it take you to learn how to ride a bicycle? How long do you think it would take you to un-learn how to ride a bicycle? Is it true that you can never forget how to ride a bicycle? How do these biases in your brain actually work? With the help of a group of welders, engineer Destin Sandlin created an experiment using a "backwards" bicycle to explore these very questions.
Destin from Smarter Every Day spent six months learning to ride a "backwards bicycle"—one that has been geared so the steering wheel is backwards. Turns out it really is difficult to do, potentially as difficult as learning to ride a bike in the first place. Being a YouTube guy, he recorded the whole process, and now has a video to explain it.
Self-reflection
From this video, I learnt 3 important things, which is :-
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Knowledge ;- Knowledge then, is the accumulate facts you and I have stored away our noggins: too many to truly understand, and most very, very superficial. It’s like how we boil an egg and know the outcome, but we don’t actually understand how heat affects the proteins in the egg to make things congeal.
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Understanding :- Understanding then, must be what our experiences tell us from a far deeper level. And just because someone gives us numerous new facts to support their case for change, if our experiences are in conflict with the new facts, we are not going to be able to immediately evolve. It might take a concerted effort to get to understanding; exactly what today’s video-share demonstrates!
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Opportunity :- Making the most of opportunity then, is the acceptance of risk and willingness to power through the darkness, until understanding evolves into a completely new way of thinking.