Jack wrote
>
> Replying to LO9400 --
>
> [from Jeff Brooks]
> >I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. You seem to be talking about two
> >different things: habits and knowledge. Consciously making and breaking
> >habits are both difficult and time consuming. Gaining and forgetting
> >"knowledge" are relatively simple and take relatively little time.
>
> Not long ago I attended a session with Peter Senge where he expressed the
> view that *unlearning* the "intuitive" ideas about balance, angular
> momentum and system dynamics which we learn when we learn how to walk is
> the hard part of learning how to ride a bicycle.
>
In all seriousness, it only recently came to my attention that anyone had
ever had difficulty learning to ride a bicycle. It appears that what you
are alluding to is a concept of "universality v applicability".
(I always thought that when someone said "its like riding a bicycle - once
you learn, you never forget" was singularly useless, not to mention
annoying, as it was not something one ever had to learn - you just do it.
Mr Nike would be happy :))
Kind regards
Bill R
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