A few years ago I read something on a knitting blog where the author talked about watching her own hands. If you’re a pretty experienced knitter, the motions are all totally automatic. Even if you’re looking at your knitting, you’re probably not really noticing every single one of those movements, unless you really force yourself to watch. And when you do, it’s amazing.
Slip the needle through the stitch, wrap the yarn, pull it through, slip it off, shuffle the next stitch a little further up the needle while tightening the stitch you just knit. Each stitch requires a dozen tiny little hand motions that happen almost simultaneously without any conscious thought at all. The most mundane row of knitting, something I do without even glancing down, is actually a wonder of mind-hand coordination.
All sorts of things are like this. Try, really try, sometime to notice all the things you do automatically when you get on your bike, or type, or take a shower.
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