To learn to walk well, they’re going to have to learn implicitly. They must relearn how to walk, but because they’re self-conscious of how they now walk, they think about the mechanics of walking, which only makes it look more mechanical. People who have had a stroke, for instance, often suffer from an “asymmetrical gait,” or a limp. When we do try to think about an “overlearned” skill like walking, we’re likely to perform worse, under the theory of “reinvestment,” as proposed by the motor-learning expert Rich Masters. The problem with beginners is that they’re always thinking about themselves doing the skill. “The key to learning juggling,” she said, “is not thinking.” Wolf didn’t want me to think of the catches, either if I just kept throwing to the corners, my hands would move to where they needed to be for the catch. Don’t think of the overall pattern you’re throwing just throw. “I can do a bit of mind reading when I teach people to juggle,” Wolf said, “and I can tell you’re thinking of this as a pattern.” Just throw to the corners, she reiterated. This quickly became overwhelming, and my flurry of scarves looked as if I were frenetically ransacking a bargain bin at Macy’s. Then she wanted me to keep repeating the process. Next, she wanted me to throw and then catch the scarves, once. I did, and the scarves fluttered to the floor. As I held two scarves in my right hand and one in my (dominant) left, she asked me to simply throw the scarves, one after the other, to the top corners of an imaginary box positioned over my head.
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