Learnings from Destin’s Backward Brain Cycle.

Many people have built bikes like this and figured it out in couple of days by staying on the bike until they were able to master it. Professor Destin had no timelines, and was using this as an exploratory activity to learn the process how human’s actually learn.

It took Destin nearly eight months to learn how to ride the backward brain cycle, he was only picking up the bike and running to the end of the driveway and back every day. He wasn’t trying it rigorously.

In other words he wasn’t making his brain learn. He simply got on the bike every day, tried to operate it to the end of the driveway, turned around and tried to operate it back. His objective was to understand how his brain figured things out on its own, without trying to force it to.