The lesson here is the other way around: you go where you look. The author's own bike example says that and it's a standard lesson in driving school (hence "eyes on the road"). You do it while lifting bc when you look straight ahead you adopt what turns out to be the right posture for lifting (it's symmetrical and "straight" so that your lift will be symmetrical too).
This property was used amusingly in Neal Stephenson's novel "Zodiac": since drivers steer where they look, wearing bright, high-viz clothing while cycling increases the chance you will be hit by a car. Thus the only way to cycle safely in Boston is to use the "ninja approach to biking": no reflectors, paint everything black (no shiny rims, crank, etc), wear only black clothes, and no helmet so you can hear danger approaching.
> and no helmet so you can hear danger approaching
This part was from Snow Crash, and was a bit of wisdom from Uncle Enzo about Vietnam. Zodiac had nothing to say about bike helmets - which, it should be obvious, don't block your ears at all.
Please wear a helmet when riding your bicycle.
But feel free to assume that every car on the road is out to kill you. Some of them are.
Author here. Thanks for reading! The idea was to show that if we are intentional about what we look at, it can optimize our lives.
Even outside of the context of sports, sometimes we can knock out 1.5 goals instead of 1 goal just by focusing on the 1 but in a slightly different way than if we didn’t know about goal 2.
This property was used amusingly in Neal Stephenson's novel "Zodiac": since drivers steer where they look, wearing bright, high-viz clothing while cycling increases the chance you will be hit by a car. Thus the only way to cycle safely in Boston is to use the "ninja approach to biking": no reflectors, paint everything black (no shiny rims, crank, etc), wear only black clothes, and no helmet so you can hear danger approaching.