I don’t ride a motorcycle, but I do ride a bike and drive a car.
When in those vehicles, I always, constantly drive as if the other people on the road simply do not see me. I just assume they do not see me. If I am driving down the road and a car is waiting to pull into traffic, my foot hovers an inch above my brake, my hand is engaged to honk (it is near there anyway) and my mind has a couple of directional options in mind.
It sounds hard, but I have been doing it so long it is natural for me now.
For survival, on a bike, I think you MUST drive that way.
I don’t even like to follow cycles on the road when I drive. I guess it comes from my days of riding when I saw how many people fail to see riders.
As a former full-time bicyclist, that is how I learned to think. Whenever I came up to a corner, I always assumed he was turning right. This way, because many people don’t signal their intentions, I was always prepared.
Most fatal car injuries involve head trauma.
Car drivers should be required to wear helmets.
Race car drivers have the sense to wear them.