Show adv N 8 tv why we behave like human beings by D LL D FOUR WHEELED MACHINES AND HUMAN MACHINES P it MCH make makes perfect even a 1 s car drIves 11 better after the th ont arst thousand miles and ai as for 01 the driver at the th and nd of the first day he of ever drove a car be b was wits a wreck for two no reasons fear lest lat be wreck the car too emotional Us IJ buffered suffered enough in to anticipation to lor lose a dozen can cam several 1 lea ribs tu eyes flea oth er fean fears his belt moved him deeply was it safe tiny 07 possibility of if its blowing up would the gas bold out etc etca ho he did not know his car it was a great unknown the th unknown li Is always a it threat throat he ile did not know bli till road nor iti its mannan and iti its customs its cune cunes and od its grade grades the new way Is al way ways a threat what ll 11 around the comer carneri the other ills 0 motor mechanism waa was tired alt all over throughout tho the day lis muscles had been tonne tense taut aa as fiddle addle strings keyed op up for emergency action now he drives three hundred miles a day lj Is as freh fresh AI its a daisy dalsy bai his a good time sets the country talka talks bli his bat hat off om smokes a dozen clean doe doti oot not give bli his car a thought the whole day he U ij Is as a automatic aa oil his engine bame car iam am road same driver er and the tame same process in to eve ry act of learning beginning with the act of standing op up or the first walk in to lif life we WO bare have time for the high spots in life if we hare have learned how to cross the routine talley 11 by force of habil do boll know which stocking yog you put pat on AM this morning or which trousers tro leg log you filled cited first do you recall bow you felt the first time yoa you ever wore a dress nit or bow loni long ever it t took you ton to put it on or to leam to tie a bowknot can yon you bathe have shave and dress la elx six minutes I 1 can do it in less than that five A skilled performer tt the piano or typewriter or on the jenals court acts liko like an to automaton but no mere automaton buman human or other wile wise ever makes a peat per fornier ormer for this reason heightened sen alti activity vity of the central cenon system increases the response of the reflex area A tap up on flexed patellar tendon elicits no do kick when one Is asleep sleep bleep means that central has hung up but try out the kapec kick with your teeth clenched or your fist flat tightly doubled up more kick get real mad more mors kick A food good habit la Is a well learned habit babit put to useful purpose the competent driver guides bis his car aa as a clever boy his bicycle the right work to the right amount amounts of at the proper time and in proper order A car or a curve or a bole or a limit ahead Is ulas enough for eye or ear tar the adjustment Is made aa as though it were a reflex as easy aa as pie it Is an acquired reflex telex all our habits act by force of habit because these paths are worn wom we awake lo 10 the morning and be fore we know it we are at the breakfast table or possibly come to only when some headline in the paper catches our eye perhaps already half through our breakfast and yet before wo we came to we went through a thousand thou saad acts sets dressing shaving etc etc some of theia them really complex perform ancee requiring delicate adjustments ret yet there were a thousand responses available for that break fast stimulus the stimulus was not necessarily followed by a yawn a stretch push coven covers down one leg out other leg out outs slippers etc one conditioned reflex telex touching off another but that chain of reactions bad had been performed so to many toes times that the paths connecting up hese these countless reflexes had been worn all the other possible paths of response offered more resistance because they had not been worn by constant action A habit aben Is an act so often repeated that it runs itself it does not need our conscious attention we can give our atte attention nUon to something else the average mortal has only one ono habit the cae one stimulus which bleb rouses him from sleep carrica him through the day and back to bed bad and to sleep all days look alike to him saturday night Is also conditioned into the chain oo 00 fresh stimulus needed for the bath I 1 ills his clock Is likewise set for sunday that day too goes by according to schedule and when done Is itself the stimulus to resume a new week one habit after another like a chall functioning as one works like a clock wound up for life hakes makes a perfect clerk band hand or maid aid this one babit node modo of existence Is flee it gives the brain a complete rest the possessor need net er bave it I 1 ile ix a performer but dom neat reat on piccolo at lathe begins behind counter or ou on a stool ue he does not even make a good there must be tia 1 ce ceral rat dynamics generally called guts cuts behind a bayonet charge and high strung central called brains in fo control for a sharpshooter the difference between action in an automatic machine and in a human realus Is brains A by george bor A dorr dorsey |