A few years ago, I went skiing and rode a chairlift with a novice skier and some of her friends.
She kept complaining that, as soon as she got into a rhythm, the ground would change and she couldn't maintain her rhythm.
She didn't "get" one of the fundamental points of skiing; one that is so basic that it's rarely explained. Part of the fun of skiing is that the ground changes and varies and is not repetitive. A ski trail is not an exercise machine.
The archetype of the article is the fallacy that, when someone learns something new, they think the same kind of patterns will emerge that formed some other activity. Golfing is a low-impact sport, rowing isn't. Skiing isn't repetitive and mindless like an exercise machine.
She kept complaining that, as soon as she got into a rhythm, the ground would change and she couldn't maintain her rhythm.
She didn't "get" one of the fundamental points of skiing; one that is so basic that it's rarely explained. Part of the fun of skiing is that the ground changes and varies and is not repetitive. A ski trail is not an exercise machine.
The archetype of the article is the fallacy that, when someone learns something new, they think the same kind of patterns will emerge that formed some other activity. Golfing is a low-impact sport, rowing isn't. Skiing isn't repetitive and mindless like an exercise machine.