we all know people have a driving story wherever they are. Uh, driver or wherever their learner, everyone has a story to tell about driving. And like you've just said, some are good. Some are not so good. Some a funny. Some are sad, but again, there's always stories to tell. So we're going to delve into storytelling with driving. Yeah. So should we start with the good side? Always. That's what we start with the positives. So I like stories about driving that have a positive ending. And it could be a pass of a test or it could be someone complete in a parallel park or something like that. And they have a story to tell about that. And I think that's really nice. For people to listen to, but also for people to tell that story to themselves. Yeah. Those sorts of stories, that's one of the things that we encourage, isn't it as a confidence building tool so that if something has gone really well in a lesson, And you've got a little mini success story. Then we want somebody to remember that, replay that and tell it to other people because that all helps reinforce that positive story. Yeah. More likely to remember it as well. Aren't they. You know, if it was a, uh, this, this venture and parallel part, let's talk about that one. If they were to do a parallel park, that was really good. And they told the friends that evening that they did a paramount, I park in this road with a car. Wait in. And how good the end result was. One. Sort of like just rim caps, what happened so they can replay it and do it again. But it also gives them a sense, like you said, that confidence that they can actually do it again because they've now retold that story to themselves. Yeah, definitely. And this is what we call mind movies. So creating those mind movies of the successes of the positives, so that whenever you have a little wobble with your confidence, you can pull out those mind movies and replay them again. And again. Yeah. That's literally what we do all the time. Storytelling's good. Yeah. So actually while we're on that subject, let's do the flip side of when something goes wrong with driving, What we don't encourage is people to storytell on the negatives. Because that has the opposite effect. So if somebody did a parallel park, And it didn't go that great. Then we don't want them replaying that dwelling on it, going over and over again in their mind. We don't want them telling other people, even if it makes a funny story, because then you're reinforcing the negative. Yeah, exactly. And you know, you might well be the first thing that comes to your mind. When, if you're learning to drive, you go home and mum and dad say to you how to drive in. Listen, go today. The first thing that people say is the negative. That's the way I suppose. Through school through the way you've been brought up as well, that we always tend to. Just think of the negative first, rather than all the positives. I think sometimes we're seeking reassurance maybe. And so we go with the negative so that the person we're telling career shores and comforters, but the problem is that it just means that you suffer the experience again. And like I say, you're reinforcing it. Remember that episode with dude with Benjamin Ryan, the hypnotherapist. He talked about the fact that his role was actually to de hypnotize people because people have been telling themselves I'm dwelling on and repeating the negative stories. So often that they'd almost hypnotize themselves into the negative and he saw his job. I was having to D hypnotize people and. Unwind that. Yeah, and I suppose if you think of the driving test, People will tell themselves a story about different tests that have happened in the past. But I've never passed anything. First time, I've always had to do this. That's a story in itself, but it's a negative story. Yeah. So this is a different level of storytelling and this is. Scenario making almost is telling stories. Making lots of. What if type stories, And I think sometimes this can be a bit of a defense mechanism, this telling yourself the story that you're not going to pass your test, or you're not going to do this almost so that you don't feel disappointed if that happens. But of course, in telling that story repeatedly, You're almost making it happen. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah. You talk yourself into failing and believe in that. Stories can be very powerful. Whether they're positive or negative. And just realize what type of story you're telling yourself. is quite a good. Starting point. Isn't it. What stories do I have about driving? And is it a thought or is it a fact. Yeah. So those first ones were facts of what happened, but those second examples of stories were just thoughts. They didn't actually happen. Yeah. Now you're thinking into the future. You can't predict the future. But you can plan for it. And potentially with that negative storytelling. You're planning to fail. Yeah. And what we want you to do instead is to be using those same skills, imagery, visualization. Scenario making storytelling, but in a positive way so that you're having a positive effect instead of a negative effect. Yeah. And. Tell yourself, I'm going to go to the test center and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this and this. And if this happens, I can just do this again, looking into the future, but you can storytelling the future. You not even got to the test stage yet, but you can say, yeah, I did that really well because one I did was this on approach to that junction. I did this, but it was really, really good. And as you're telling it, you're visualizing it as well. So you're getting, you're just, like you said, you're reinforcing those good behaviors. Yeah. So it's really important.