One hundred years ago, if you wanted to learn the new hot dance moves, you’d have to open a book Like Arthur Murray’s How to Become a Good Dancer (1938), and you’d be greeted with a handful of static images and paragraphs like:

“Steps 1 and 2 get a time count of 1, 2 each; steps 3 and 4 get just 1. This basic pattern of the Shag is called the “Time Shag,” and it should be done twice before you break into a Shag Dip or Side Break…”

Makes perfect sense to me!

Now I’m sure old Arthur tried his best, but did anyone become a good dancer from reading that book?

Take comfort knowing that we’ve quietly moved from a time when nothing works and we don’t know why, to an era where everything just works and we don’t know why.