Look right, look left, look right again

Occasionally they offer you helpful advice.

 

So when I was younger I was a professional dancer. Part of your training is to learn to do things both left and right. When you learned a combination, you had to learn it predominantly right and then again predominantly left. It was hard! 

We all learn to cross the street safely as a young child. You internalise this in a way that you don't realise until it changes. 

In the UK, traffic is opposite. Cars travel on the left, not the right. So this means you need to re-learn not just driving skills but pedestrian skills. When you cross the street, you must look right first, not left as you are accustomed to. After a few close calls, we have learned that we must cross the street much more mindfully. We approach the kerb, pause, think "look right",  pause, think "look left",  pause,  think "look right again", THEN cross. 

I wonder how long it will take me to internalise this to the point where I do it without thinking.