“The Backwards Brain Bicycle”

“The Backwards Brain Bicycle” 

The video tells us about Mr. Destin Sandlin experiment. When he was child, he learned to bike and he did it. Then, his friend Barney called him 25 years later and gave a challenge. He asked Destin to ride the backwards bicycle. If he turns the handlebar to the left, the wheel goes to the right and vice versa. Firstly, he could not pass the challenge. Destin said that he had the knowledge of how to operate the bike but he did not have to understand. Meanwhile “knowledge is not equal understanding” said Destin. He tried five minutes a day for 8 months and finally he did it, while his son just need two weeks to ride it. He also told us three point that we can learn from the experiment they are : 1. Welder are often smarter than engineers 2. Knowledge does not equal understanding  3. The truth is truth.

Because of I study in English Department, from the video we can take a  lesson that learning English language for us is like learning to bike. When we were child our parents taught us about Javanese or Bahasa Indonesia everyday, so that we can speak both of them easily now. But how about English language that our parent never told us about it? It has same case with Destin to ride backwards bicycle. If we want to speak English fluently, we need practice more and more (eventhough it was really hard for me). Although we have studied all times and we think that we have understood about it, if we never practice our knowledge it will be very useless for us even we forgot the lesson. By practicing something we will understand about it. As Mr Destin explain, a young child has neural plasticity than adult it means that children have a much more plastic brain. It explains us that we must study hard and practice it, it is  our chance while we are young. Moreover, practice is very important to increase our speaking ability especially I am as English Department College students.

That’s what I can learn from the video, the video really pump my motivation to speak up everywhere and alltime. Hope you enjoy it!