1. Remember a time when you were asked to learn a completely new skill, which was hard to acquire in your opinion. How did you feel during the first learning period?

    The situation can be experienced ambivalently. On one side it represents an exciting challenge: the acquisition of new skills demands our attention, the level of adrenaline typically goes up and provides the energy needed for greater concentration on the task. On the other hand, this can give rise to feelings that impede us such as fear of failure, looking bad or anxiety over getting hurt.

  2. Take the example of driving a car (or if you don’t have a driver's license, think of when you learned to use/ride a bike, scooter, skateboard, paraglide, windsurf...). Write down your thoughts and your emotions, correlating them with the following three stages:
    1. Conscious of your incompetence
    2. Conscious of your competence
    3. Unconscious of your competence

    Example: driving a car

    1. During your first lessons at driving school you realize your own incompetence; you are insecure and errors occur frequently.
    2. The first few years after obtaining the licence, the driver has acquired a level of expertise meaning they can drive a car without errors, safely and with confidence. However, high levels of concentration are still required to do so.
    3. After several years of experience, the driver has become so efficient driving the vehicle that individual moves have now become automated, no longer requiring rational concentration.