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Riding with your sub-conscious mind
Riding is an art, an art that needs tens of thousands of kilometers experience just to get the basics right. Yet after covering so many kilometers many people don’t get the basics right and end up becoming the victim of it. To understand proper riding of a two-wheeler you need to perform many actions repetitively every time you sit on the bike. This very act of repetition has a flaw, a flaw that is significant enough to be aware of it.
When any action is repeated frequently under similar conditions it becomes your habit, it becomes the part of your sub-conscious mind as the action get stored in your sub-conscious because of so many repetitions and then you rarely realize that it is your sub-conscious which is doing the things for you while your conscious mind sleeps into its own world of thoughts/wonderland. This is the perfect recipe for a dangerous scenario as your sub-conscious can only act to normal circumstances under which your riding style has been formed, under which you have performed repetitive actions. So while your sub-conscious will brake at red lights or when you have to stop, it’ll allow you to take turn when you have to, it’ll let you ride at your normal riding speed but when it comes to panic situation where something goes against the sub-conscious riding framework which you have developed over the years of riding, it fails to react, and when the sub-conscious do not find any response from its database of stored responses it send signals to your conscious to wake up and react and that fraction of seconds wasted by your sub-conscious to complete this process, is what makes the difference between a near save and a mishap to happen. Those fraction of seconds can make the difference between you living the happy riding life or living with endless pain/regret.
Riding is an art, an art that needs you to be 100% aware of your surroundings, an art that needs continuous attention of your conscious mind, every time you perform it, to get it right. This awareness, this self-reminder every time you sit on saddle is what every rider needs to master the art of riding.
After all riding is what we all enjoy and help us being sane.
P.S. – Don’t forget to check once in a while that this “self-reminder” has not become a part of your sub-conscious where your conscious self do not take it seriously.
When any action is repeated frequently under similar conditions it becomes your habit, it becomes the part of your sub-conscious mind as the action get stored in your sub-conscious because of so many repetitions and then you rarely realize that it is your sub-conscious which is doing the things for you while your conscious mind sleeps into its own world of thoughts/wonderland. This is the perfect recipe for a dangerous scenario as your sub-conscious can only act to normal circumstances under which your riding style has been formed, under which you have performed repetitive actions. So while your sub-conscious will brake at red lights or when you have to stop, it’ll allow you to take turn when you have to, it’ll let you ride at your normal riding speed but when it comes to panic situation where something goes against the sub-conscious riding framework which you have developed over the years of riding, it fails to react, and when the sub-conscious do not find any response from its database of stored responses it send signals to your conscious to wake up and react and that fraction of seconds wasted by your sub-conscious to complete this process, is what makes the difference between a near save and a mishap to happen. Those fraction of seconds can make the difference between you living the happy riding life or living with endless pain/regret.
Riding is an art, an art that needs you to be 100% aware of your surroundings, an art that needs continuous attention of your conscious mind, every time you perform it, to get it right. This awareness, this self-reminder every time you sit on saddle is what every rider needs to master the art of riding.
After all riding is what we all enjoy and help us being sane.
P.S. – Don’t forget to check once in a while that this “self-reminder” has not become a part of your sub-conscious where your conscious self do not take it seriously.
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