Target fixation

It really is.

It makes me think of the concept of target fixation, you know, in high speed racing or riding a motorcycle.

Oh, right, where you steer where you look.

Exactly.

Wow.

The author is so hyper fixated on the aesthetic perfection of the dom, the shoes, the nylons, the luxury brands, that he steers right past his own financial guardrails.

The visual input caused a complete target fixation, and he drove his wallet straight into the wall.

That is a brilliant analogy, and that target fixation reveals something profound about his psychology.

He just literally hit that one tree that was on the side of the road.

And it's target fixation.

If he had just moved a couple of feet on either side, he would have been completely fine.

So you really need to be careful with this because...

So let's wrap up.

We talked about some of the issues with body position, like locked elbows or death grips on the handlebars.

We also covered the vision and mental traps that affect intermediate riders, like target fixation and lazy scanning.

And we covered issues with cornering and braking, like overly relying on the rear brake, failing to look through a corner, and these harsh mid-corner adjustments.