In today's episode, we're going to talk about something that we call being an active passenger. And this is something we talk about quite a lot in our workshops. And I think we've referred to it in podcast episodes as well. Haven't we care we have, and it's something I definitely do on the road and get people to do. You know, in lessons potentially, or even after lessons between lessons. So what do we mean by being an active passenger? Yeah. this is all about if you are a learner driver. Or if you are a nervous or anxious driver, Using that time, whenever you're a passenger in a car to work on your skills, your knowledge or confidence around driving Yeah. It's about making the best use of that time, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. And there's some really strong reasons for this. So one of the things about being an active passenger or active passenger in, as we, as we often find ourselves saying. Is that this is an opportunity when you're a passenger instead of a driver to take in all of that information around you related to driving, but you're reducing the load. You're reducing that cognitive load because. You're not having to think at the same time about steering, changing gear, signaling yeah, you're giving yourself that. I suppose you'll be in kind to yourself and just relaxing the amount of effort required to complete a task. You're breaking that skill down on you. Yeah. You're reducing how much you have to do. So it gives you that chance to do the observations, to think about what does that mean? What are the implications? What would you do in a scenario without actually having to do it? Yeah. And it's. It's building up your database, isn't it? Yeah. This. And that's what you're doing. You're building your database of information in your mind, all around driving. And if you're doing this in your local area, then you're also building up that database of knowledge about. Junctions roundabouts one way streets, different things that you may have to do regularly in your local area. So you're building up that data bank of information so that when you are driving. You haven't got that. I don't know where I am. What do I do here? What, what do I do? Which is always causes so much anxiety. Is given yourself that stored information that you can draw on and go, actually, I know what to do here. It's just a great way to, to learn, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. And if you're being an active passenger, if you're spending time between drives or between lessons doing this. Then this is going to help you with not only build up those data banks of information. But actually is going to help you to retain the information you need in your working memory.