If you learn something wrong, the more you use the skill, the harder it becomes to unlearn and kill the habits you learned in the first place.
Im about to get a driver’s license, but I have to spend a lot of time unlearning bad things I was taught by my parents. Different rules they don’t follow which have become instincts of mine since they taught me to drive. In this intace they’re pretty minor, but damn is It hard to get rid of them once they becomes instincts.
Reminds me of when I first got my driver’s license. I was driving with my mother as the passenger and I turned right on red when there was no other traffic around. She said something like, “You didn’t even stop before turning!” And I looked at her and replied, “So? Are you supposed to stop? You never do.”
This is correct. This concept is taught in the Fundamentals of Instruction as the Rule of Primacy. That which is learned first is best retained. It is more difficult and time consuming to correct a bad habit than establish a good one from scratch.
If you learn something wrong, the more you use the skill, the harder it becomes to unlearn and kill the habits you learned in the first place.
Im about to get a driver’s license, but I have to spend a lot of time unlearning bad things I was taught by my parents. Different rules they don’t follow which have become instincts of mine since they taught me to drive. In this intace they’re pretty minor, but damn is It hard to get rid of them once they becomes instincts.
Reminds me of when I first got my driver’s license. I was driving with my mother as the passenger and I turned right on red when there was no other traffic around. She said something like, “You didn’t even stop before turning!” And I looked at her and replied, “So? Are you supposed to stop? You never do.”
This is correct. This concept is taught in the Fundamentals of Instruction as the Rule of Primacy. That which is learned first is best retained. It is more difficult and time consuming to correct a bad habit than establish a good one from scratch.
Practice makes permanent.