<story><title>Non cogito, ergo sum</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>Driving is a perfect and mundane example of unconscious competence most people have. If you could perform with the simple confidence of driving to work,you would probably be very good at what you were doing.&lt;p&gt;A friend once rhetorically asked me what trying to be funny meant, and of course it means being not funny, yet when we want to achieve some other end we approach it by trying. Yoda summed it up well, but we don&amp;#x27;t really get a chance to understand what it really means. Trying to drive on a highway is farcically dangerous, but simply driving on one is among the safest ways to drive.&lt;p&gt;There is a mental change that comes from physical competence where you no longer fear failure, and I&amp;#x27;d argue its that lack of fear that makes the difference at elite levels where skills are largely equal. It also makes the difference in the rate at which you learn. The try&amp;#x2F;humiliate style of teaching is a way to produce industrial scale mediocrity, and so few can appreciate the difference that there is often no reason to change.</text></comment>
<story><title>Non cogito, ergo sum</title><url>https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GarvielLoken</author><text>This is one of the goals of Judo. It combines rational thinking, &amp;quot;How does this throw work? Why did not my attempt work?&amp;quot; with the end goal of not needing the thinking in practice. No Mind. It&amp;#x27;s what allows any musician or performance artist, race car driver, to be effective; Because they need to operate creatively at speeds that are faster then rational thinking. And this in our field is of course known as &amp;quot;being in the flow&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;quot;Once mushin is attained through the practice or study of martial arts (although it can be accomplished through other arts or practices that refine the mind and body), the objective is to then attain this same level of complete awareness in other aspects of the practitioner&amp;#x27;s life. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;budobum.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;states-of-mind-mushin.html?m=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;budobum.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;states-of-mind-mushin.ht...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>