Fear is an issue. It's universal. You have it, I have it.
The issue of fear is coming up with students more and more often.
Vague fears, like anxiety, and concrete fears like fear of doing something incorrectly, fear of being admonished, fear of being sent home, fear of being found out.
The weird thing is: small stuff and big stuff bring up exactly the same size of fear. Not very intelligent, is it?
After all fear has its usefulness: if you are standing on the railroad tracks and a train is coming: being afraid is very very useful, it makes you jump of the tracks. Only a very stupid person would stay there, fearless.
On the other hand, when you learn something new, like a new skill, being afraid that you won't do well is the stupid thing: I promise you you won't do well. Learning is a process, it is not a "paradigm jump", no matter what the gurus tell you. First you won't do well.
The other thing I noticed is this: when you are afraid, your attention gets impaired,
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