42. Well-practiced skills don’t require conscious attention.

Well-practiced skills don’t require conscious attention.

• Children who are taking music lessons they
• practice over and over until they know the music by heart. They are not
• thinking about the finger movements, just play the instrument from memory.

Too many automatic steps can lead to errors.

• If you
• have a task that is repeated over and over again, it becomes easy to overrun,
• or go past the last item you wanted to do the task on.
• Make it easy for people to undo the last action,
• or preferably a sequence.