CDL/truck driving school
Something people should know about truck driving school is that it isn’t as much a “truck driving school” as it is a means of preparing an individual to pass the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) commercial driver license exam.
Instead of having an enjoyable learning experience with a solid curriculum and engaging hands on learning, students find that they have enrolled in an institution that injects fear and anxiety into its pupils. The instructors and staff preach about drug tests, class time missed, driving with both hands on the wheel, quizzing oneself for the CDL permit exam, performance on the tractor trailer backing portions of the exam, not stalling out the manual transmission, missing or improperly completing any important procedure, memorizing “word for word” everything on the vehicle pre-inspection procedure, etc. All these could potentially result in failure on that DOT exam. Any repeat attempts to pass the exam would cost an additional $120.
To make the continual preaching about failure worse, anytime a student makes one of these errors during the course, the instructors snap out the statement, “that’s a hundred and twenty dollars!”
For three weeks the instructors and staff teach their students to fear the exam, fear their performance, fear the examiner, and fear failing the exam. As a result, most students show up for the exam fearful and having slept very little while cramming and stressing. Not knowing if they have prepared enough, each student is left on their own to face the examiner and the horrifying exam experience. The nerves are usually what causes actions that result in an exam failure.
If only the individual could see past the exam into the amazing job they’ll land that requires the same actions as the exam without all of the added stress and anxiety of the training and preparation. Then the individual could see that performing for the exam is actually enjoyable, exciting and a glimpse of what is to come after successfully completing it.
Speeches are exactly the same as this intense experience. If the individual could see the future as enjoyable and exciting, and prepare in a way that isn’t fearful of failure then he would be able to perform on speech day without all the self-induced stress and anxiety that result in failure.
Focus on freedom not fear.
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