Psychology | Skills and Habits

As children we acquire a lot of skills that become habitual, we can do them without thinking very much about it. We learn to crawl, walk and feed ourselves and later we learn lots of basic skills like reading, writing and numeracy. It seems the graffiti artist who painted on this bridge learned a little reading, writing and arithmetic. He seems to have a fascination for the spots on a domino. It’s a shame he wasn’t taught a respect for property and the environment. (more…)

14, May 2012 | Categories: psychology | Tags: automatic behaviour, craftsmen, Doodle, doodling, driving, driving a car, graffiti, habits, riding a bike, skills | 4 Comments