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When I learned to ride a motorcycle, the instructor gave one of those specific pieces of advice that end up being applicable to life in general:
“Your bike will go wherever you look. So if you don’t want to hit something, don’t look at it!”
He was right: when you turn your head on a motorcycle, the vehicle responds to your body movement. In order not to make the tree hanging into the road your target, you have to register it out of your peripheral vision. Over the years, I’ve found a variety of ways to apply this advice to life.
This is an audio version of my article on Substack. Please click here to read the transcript.