Psychology Today | 04.06.2026 01:34
Recently, I was riding my bicycle up a steep hill when I noticed a knee-jerk reaction to sway the bike from left to right. I wondered why this was an instinctual movement, since at first glance, it seemed illogical from a purely visual point of view. After all, wouldn’t the shortest distance between two points be a straight line upward? Out of curiosity, I intentionally exaggerated this motion so that instead of subtly weaving, I rode dramatically from one side of the hill to the other, and then zigzagged upward.
