Remember that the way you think it should be is wrong

TeddyTedson · 01-08-2012 9:27am #1

I'm interested to see if many other people do this.
Ok. So you've been told how to do something and you think to yourself, oh, I always thought it would have been the other way around. So then you say to yourself, that's how I'll remember it, "its the opposite to the way you think it would be". Then over time you start to adjust to the correct way. And you remember saying to yourself that it should be the opposite to the way you think it should be despite that fact you are now accustomed to the correct way and you end up accidentally the whole thing as a result.

#imdoingitwrong

How can I remember the correct way without this vital flaw.

Surely there is an easier way.

Cookie_Monster · 01-08-2012 9:30am

like being taught how to write with your right hand despite being left handed?

Mr Benevolent · 01-08-2012 9:31am

What?

jimthemental · 01-08-2012 9:34am

Is it possible that everyone else is right except you?

tbh · 01-08-2012 9:37am

I have two cousins. Niamh and Eimear. I was always calling Niamh Eimear and vice-versa. So I started thinking "Just call her the opposite of what you think her name is". Problem solved. Temporarily. Then I knew that Niamh was Niamh and Eimear was Eimear, but my brain was still thinking "Just call her the opposite of what you think her name is". So I started calling Niamh Eimear and Eimear Niamh again.

Honestly, is that so difficult to understand?

TeddyTedson · 01-08-2012 9:42am

For example. While learning to drive you think in a country that use the old French system. You think "I would have thought you'd have to give way to traffic on the roundabout". But you don't, you give way to traffic coming on to the roundabout. So you say to yourself, remember it's not the way you think. It's the opposite way. Then as time goes on you are now used to the French system and one day coming on to a roundabout you say to yourself its the opposite way to what you think remember and bang. Your dead.

al28283 · 01-08-2012 9:44am

The way you think naming threads should be is wrong

Mr Benevolent · 01-08-2012 9:45am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

For example. While learning to drive you think in a country that use the old French system. You think "I would have thought you'd have to give way to traffic on the roundabout". But you don't, you give way to traffic coming on to the roundabout. So you say to yourself, remember it's not the way you think. It's the opposite way. Then as time goes on you are now used to the French system and one day coming on to a roundabout you say to yourself its the opposite way to what you think remember and bang. Your dead.

You need to stop thinking. Now.