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The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
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Hey it's me Destin.
Welcome back to Smarter Every Day.
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?
But I did something.
I did something that damaged my mind.
It happened on the streets of Amsterdam
and I got really scared honestly.
I can't ride a bike like you can anymore.
Before I show you the video of what happened
I need to tell you the back story.
Like many six year olds with a MacGyver mullet
I learned how to ride a bike when I was really young.
I had learned a life skill and I was really proud of it.
Everything changed though when my friend Barney called me 25 years later.
Where I work, the welders are geniuses, and they like to play jokes on the engineers.
He had a challenge for me.
He had built a special bicycle and he wanted me to try to ride it.
He had only changed one thing.
When you turn the handlebar to the left, the wheel goes to the right.
When you turn it to the right, the wheel goes to the left.
I thought this would be easy so I hopped on the bike
ready to demonstrate how quickly I could conquer this.
- And here he is ladies and gentlemen,
Mr Destin Sandlin.
First attempt riding the bicycle.
- Yeah, yeah.
I couldn't do it.
You can see that I'm laughing but I'm actually really frustrated.
In this moment I had a really deep revelation.
My thinking was in a rut.
This bike revealed a very deep truth to me.
I had the knowledge of how to operate the bike,
but I did not have the understanding.
Therefore, knowledge is not understanding.
Look I know what you're probably thinking.
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