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This is from Malcolm Gladwell in blink:

Professional tennis player and coach Vic Braden video taped players to study their movements in minute detail. He learned that what players said they did and how their bodies actually moved were not the same thing.

Braden found the same to be true of baseball legend Ted Williams, "perhaps the greatest hitter of all time." Williams always said he could look at a ball until the moment of contact, but Braden knew it was not possible. "In the final five feet of a tennis ball’s flight toward a player," writes Gladwell, "the ball is far too close and moving much too fast to be seen. The player, at that moment, is effectively blind. The same is true with baseball."

Braden met Williams and told him of his video studies. "Well," Williams responded, "I guess it just seemed like I could do that." At least he was honest.

"Ted Williams could hit a baseball as well as anyone in history," writes Gladwell. "But his explanation did not match his actions. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for."