I often do it even though I usually already know before doing it. It just feels like a habit/sanity check.

  • Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    Fucking same. When I first learned compass directions, I mistakenly thought east was left and carried that habit for years and now I can’t unlearn it.

    But things I know others struggled with learning as children I got right away and didn’t need to use any tricks to get. Like using your thumb and forefinger as the less than sign and turning your hand so it’s an L for “less than”. And I know some people who need to use that trick to remember which one is which as adults still.

    Bizarre how the brain works.