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As entertainment critic Roger
Ebert once said, "If you disagree with something I write, tell me so, argue
with me, correct me--but don't tell me to shut up. That's not the American way."
Let's say you're left-handed -- and you've recently injured your left shoulder. You can still use your left hand for most things, but you really shouldn't raise that arm too far forward, let alone lift it above your head. So you go around thinking right arm, right arm, right arm as you approach any task which would require one of those movements to occur. You keep repeating it to yourself in a chorus loop just to make sure your body knows what the marching orders are. And then you confront the task --
This trope covers any situation where you've trained your body to respond in a certain pattern -- and so it keeps responding that way whether you want it to or not. It's most common for video gamers, who have to memorize a hundred different sets of controls and can't always switch their reflexes over. But it pops up in other aspects of life. Over and over again, to the point where if you read enough of the examples, you will find a time when you've done it.
One of the more painful tropes. Sometimes literally.
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