What is Automaticity? (concept) §

Source §

• Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis by: Gabriele Wulf

Key ideas §

• Automacity is when performers concentrate on the intended movement effect, their motor system uses a more automatic control mode.

• This is in contrast to focusing internally and using conscious control

• It may be about providing a good context where you can learn things and deep remember them

  • My Mandarin was a survive environment.
  • Can I learn skills in that kind of space?

Examples / Stories §

• I think of my Mandarin speaking
  • I learned it in a context, so there’s some second nature to it

See also §

• I think this links to the idea of Self 1 and Self 2 (concept) in the Inner Game of Tennis,
  • when Timothy Gallwey talks about how we just have to let Self 1 and Self 2 (concept) get out of the way and then Self 2 will have the room to learn for itself.
• I find this also related to Connaturality (idea).
  • The idea that it becomes second nature to you.
• There’s room to link this to habits also