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Практика английского по видео: The Backwards Brain Bicycle

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  1. Hey, it's me, Destin.0:00
  2. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day.0:01
  3. You've heard people say it's just like riding a bike, meaning it's really easy and you can't forget how to do it, right?0:02
  4. But I did something.0:08
  5. I did something that damaged my mind.0:09
  6. It happened on the streets of Amsterdam and I got really scared, honestly.0:11
  7. I can't ride a bike like you can anymore.0:15
  8. Before I show you the video of what happened, I need to tell you the backstory.0:18
  9. Like many six -year -olds with a MacGyver mullet, I learned how to ride a bike when I was really young.0:22
  10. I had learned a life skill and I was really proud of it.0:26
  11. Everything changed though when my friend Barney called me 25 years later.0:29
  12. Where I work, the welders are geniuses and they like to play jokes on the engineers.0:32
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  1. He had a challenge for me.0:36
  2. He had built a special bicycle and he wanted me to try to ride it.0:37
  3. He had only changed one thing.0:41
  4. When he turned the handlebar to the left, the wheel goes to the right.0:42
  5. When you turn it to the right, the wheel goes to the left.0:46
  6. I thought this would be easy, so I hopped on the bike ready to demonstrate how quickly I could conquer this.0:48
  7. And here he is, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.0:52
  8. Destin Salmon.0:54
  9. First attempt riding the bicycle.0:56
  10. I couldn't do it.1:06
  11. You can see that I'm laughing, but I'm actually really frustrated.1:08
  12. In this moment, I had a really deep revelation.1:11
  13. My thinking was in a rut.1:14
  14. This bike revealed a very deep truth to me.1:16
  15. I had the knowledge of how to operate the bike, but I did not have the understanding.1:19
  16. Therefore, knowledge is not understanding.1:24
  17. Look, I know what you're probably thinking.1:27
  18. Destin's probably just an uncoordinated engineer and can't do it, but that's not the case at all.1:29
  19. The algorithm that's associated with riding a bike in your brain is just that complicated.1:32
  20. Think about it.1:37
  21. Downwards force on the pedals, leaning your whole body, pulling and pushing the handlebars, gyroscopic procession in the wheels, every single force is part of this algorithm.1:38
  22. And if you change any one part, it affects the entire control system.1:44
  23. I do not make definitive statements that often, but I'm telling you right now, you cannot ride this bicycle.1:48
  24. You might think you can, but you can't.1:55
  25. I know this because I'm often asked to speak at universities and conferences and I take the bike with me.1:57
  26. It's always the same.2:02
  27. People think they're going to try some trick or they're just going to power through it.2:03
  28. It doesn't work.2:06
  29. Your brain cannot handle this.2:08
  30. For instance, this guy, I offered him $200 just to ride this bike 10 feet across the stage.2:10
  31. Everybody thought he could do it.2:16
  32. No, you didn't understand.2:19
  33. So this way.2:23
  34. So whatever you're at.2:28
  35. No, you have to keep your feet on.2:32
  36. Keep your feet on the pedal.2:40
  37. Go.2:55
  38. All right.3:11
  39. One more time.3:12
  40. Once you have a rigid weight of thinking in your head, sometimes you cannot change that even if you want to.3:14
  41. So here's what I did.3:25
  42. It was a personal challenge.3:27
  43. I stayed out here in this driveway and I practiced about five minutes every day.3:28
  44. My neighbors made fun of me.3:31
  45. I had many wrecks, but after eight months, this happened.3:32
  46. One day I couldn't ride the bike and the next day I could.3:37
  47. It was like I could feel some kind of pathway in my brain that was now unlocked.3:40
  48. It was really weird though.3:44
  49. It's like there's this trail in my brain, but if I wasn't paying close enough attention to it, my brain would easily lose that neural path and jump back onto3:45
  50. the old road it was more familiar with.3:51
  51. Any small distractions at all, like a cell phone ringing in my pocket, would instantly throw my brain back to the old control algorithm and I would wreck.3:53
  52. But at least I could ride it.3:59
  53. My son is the closest person to me genetically and he's been riding a normal bike for three years.4:01
  54. That's over half his life.4:05
  55. I wanted to know how long it would take him to learn how to ride a backwards bike.4:07
  56. So I told him if he learned how to ride a backwards bike, he could go with me to Australia and meet a real astronaut.4:10
  57. Are you going to give up?4:15
  58. No.4:16
  59. Go ahead.4:17
  60. This is how it starts.4:19
  61. Look at this.4:21
  62. This is such a big deal.4:22
  63. Get up.4:24
  64. You got it.4:25
  65. Did you see his brain get it?4:26
  66. So he in how many weeks have we been doing this?4:27
  67. Two weeks?4:30
  68. In two weeks he did something that took me eight months to do, which demonstrates that a child has more neural plasticity.4:32
  69. Am I even saying that right?4:39
  70. Than an adult.4:40
  71. It's clear from this experiment that children have a much more plastic brain than adults.4:41
  72. That's why the best time to learn a language is when you're a young child.4:45
  73. All right, today's bike log.4:49
  74. I can ride smooth.4:50
  75. I can ride fast.4:51
  76. I'm thinking the experiment is over.4:52
  77. Okay, now I'm in Amsterdam, a city that has more bicycles than people.4:54
  78. The question is, can I ride a normal bike now?4:58
  79. I mean, I've spent all this time unlearning how to ride a bike.5:01
  80. If I go back and try to ride a normal one, will my brain mess up?5:04
  81. So I've tweeted a smarter everyday meetup, if you will, and I'm going to see if somebody brings a bicycle and I'm going to try to ride a normal bike.5:07
  82. It's backwards.5:18
  83. It's backwards.5:19
  84. This was one of the most frustrating moments of my life.5:20
  85. I had ridden a normal bike since I was six, but in this moment I couldn't do it anymore.5:22
  86. I had set out to prove that I could free my brain from a cognitive bias, but at this point I'm pretty sure that all I've proved is that I5:26
  87. can only redesignate that bias.5:32
  88. So what you're not seeing is just a group of people here looking at me, looking at the strange American that can't ride a bike because they think I'm dumb,5:34
  89. but I'm actually two levels deep into this because I've learned and unlearned.5:43
  90. All right.5:47
  91. After 20 minutes of making a fool out of myself, suddenly my brain clicked back into the old algorithm.5:48
  92. I can't explain it, but it happened in a very specific moment.5:53
  93. I got it.6:01
  94. I got it.6:02
  95. I'm back.6:02
  96. Oh, it clicked.6:03
  97. Hold it.6:04
  98. It clicked.6:04
  99. I got it.6:05
  100. I got it.6:06
  101. Okay, there it is.6:07
  102. There was the moment.6:07
  103. Okay, I can ride a bike.6:09
  104. I tried to explain this to the people around me, and they just didn't get it.6:11
  105. They thought I was faking the previous 20 minutes, and I couldn't get anybody to believe them.6:14
  106. That look, I faked that, didn't it?6:18
  107. Just a face.6:19
  108. You think I'm faking?6:20
  109. You don't move.6:21
  110. You think I'm lying, don't you?6:23
  111. I'm not lying.6:26
  112. I felt like the only person on the planet who had ever unlearned how to ride a bike, and I couldn't articulate it to anyone because everybody just knew that6:28
  113. you can't forget how to ride a bike.6:35
  114. So I learned three things from this experiment.6:39
  115. I learned that welders are often smarter than engineers.6:41
  116. I learned that knowledge does not equal understanding, and I learned that truth is truth, no matter what I think about it.6:44
  117. So be very careful how you interpret things because you're looking at the world with a bias, whether you think you are or not.6:50
  118. I'm Destin.6:56
  119. You're getting smarter every day.6:58
  120. Have a good one.6:59
  121. Okay, if you want to support Smarter Every Day, you can download a free audio book at audible .com slash Smarter.7:00
  122. I recommend Commander Hadfield's book, which is an astronaut's guide to life on Earth.7:05
  123. I read it.7:10
  124. It was awesome.7:10
  125. If you think about it, I had to learn how to ride a different kind of bicycle, and my son did as well.7:11
  126. But Commander Hadfield had to learn how to ride a different spaceship.7:16
  127. Not only that, but a different type of space station.7:20
  128. He was on Mir and the International Space Station.7:22
  129. Anyway, if you're interested in supporting Smarter Every Day, audible .com slash Smarter and Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.7:25
  130. I'm Destin.7:31
  131. You're getting smarter every day.7:32
  132. Have a good one.7:33
  133. Why don't you ride it?7:47
  134. You just build it?7:49
  135. I can't ride it.7:49
  136. I just build it.7:50

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