THE VIDEO SHELF · learning and neuroplasticity
The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
Destin of Smarter Every Day learns to ride a bicycle whose steering is reversed, taking about eight months, and compares it with how his young son learned much faster. It illustrates knowledge versus understanding and brain plasticity in adults versus children.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it widely in discussions of tacit knowledge, habit, unlearning and adult versus child learning.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SmarterEveryDay
- Topic
- learning and neuroplasticity
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I agree - surely adults can learn these tennis strokes, even if they are harder to pick up. There is an absolutely fascinating video about plasticity of learning between adults and children that I'd highly recommend watching [1]. A man built a "backwards bicycle", where …
jw1224 on Hacker News · 2017-03
In How to Learn New Things as an AdultFrom the excellent smartereverday youtube channel [VIDEO] Strongly recommend to watch the above video.He does an experiment on how long it takes to get comfortable by changing the handle bars.
victor106 on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike?One of my friends one day forwarded me the YouTube link to Backwards Brain Bicycle by Dustin ( [VIDEO] ) and I was so amazed by how our brains cling to the meanings of relative phenomena we've learnt in the past and how it characterizes …
picmate on Hacker News · 2016-08
In My Response to the Backwards Brain Bicycle
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