What’s the trait you value most about yourself?
Proprioception, the sense for recognizing one’s location of self in relation to self.
This awareness of my body helps me not only feel where I am, but also how I am reacting to outside forces.
For example, when I learned to solve a Rubik’s Cube (3×3) back in 1995 from a book I found at a thrift shop, knowing how much I moved my hands and arms to rotate the cube and it’s layers around made it easier to understand the three dimensional movement, resulting in understanding where layers move, how they move, and where they will move to.
Yes, that was limited to maybe 3 moves ahead at MAX capacity, but experience and familiarity improved that.
Now, it’s being used to feel the nuances of vehicle control as I teach people how to drive in California so that they can build the skills required to safely operate a motor vehicle.
The slight change in control input from a student behind the wheel (whether thats a change in steering, brake, gas, and even timing of vision to input) tells me so much about what the car is about to do as a result of that input.
However, this stuff is only good for me on land. I get crazy motion sickness and vertigo when I’m on a boat.
