Richard Bailey

Don’t think, feel! Bruce Lee and the myth of unconscious automaticity

Prevailing conceptions of expertise reduce mastery to automaticity – reflexive, unthinking action – obscuring the vital interplay of reflection, perception and contextual attunement underpinning skilled performance. This article investigates this reduction by examining how imperatives such as Bruce Lee’s instruction “D...

Richard bailey Don’t think , feel! Bruce Lee and the Myth of Unconscious Automaticity