Lessons in the Car

In this Part

1. 1 An aid judges for the learner, a skill stays with them 4 min

   A sticker on the rear window gets a learner into one parking space. Real reference points, and their own eyes, get them into every space they have never seen.

2. 2 Drivers rehearse the road in their heads, so rehearse it well 4 min

   Priya could merge. She had decided she couldn’t. How visualisation rebuilds the driver who turns up at the on-ramp, and why it reaches The Driver, the far horizon that drills can miss.

3. 3 For the learner who carries fear, the fear is the lesson 4 min

   Noah rated his fear of motorways a ten out of ten. Scaling gave him a number he could move, and a way to read his own state long after the lesson.

4. 4 Anger takes a driver’s attention before it takes the wheel 6 min

   Anger pulls a driver’s attention off the road before it touches the wheel. Telling an angry learner to calm down can end the lesson. Naming the anger and scaling it stops it running their driving.

5. 5 A second person in the car changes how a risky belief gets challenged 6 min

   A second person in the car is more than company. A risky belief can be challenged better by the mate in the back than by you telling. The coaching advantage of a pair, with exercises and ground rules.

6. 6 A van wrapped around a tree, and not one word of I told you so 5 min

   The lesson a crash teaches cannot be preached. A young driver has to reach the insight themselves, that how they drive mirrors how they handle everything else. Restraint is the coaching skill here.

7. 7 The slow learner is not the weak learner 4 min

   Mai panics at anything new and is learning to drive in her second language. Slowing the new and repeating the familiar gave her a pace she could keep.