I believe that reflection is something that we do constantly and it never stops, even if you don't realize, you are reflecting. It could be having a conversation with someone about what happened on your drive there, or, you know, what happened on your driving previously? And I think reflection is a great tool for learners to use for drivers to use for anyone that's. Needs to reflect on something and learn from it and move forward. Reflection as a tool we know is really useful for anybody who struggles with managing thoughts. So for anybody that has lots of negative thoughts or repeated thoughts. For anybody who needs to manage their mind, then reflection is a great tool to help you do this. Yeah. And I think, reflection, we tend to think of the bad things. You know what, wen t horribly wrong The first thing that comes to mind, but try and be a bit more positive with ask yourself the question, what went well? What did you do? That was good. In your driving And I think this is a real key point from Is that people don't reflect on the good stuff. They could have done a 10 minute drive. Fantastic and then messed the parking up at the end and all they'll remember is that parking. And I just feel that there is so much good that's happened that we forget about that. That comes down to being human. So as humans, we have something called a negativity bias. So it means that automatically we look at the negative side of things. So in order to focus on the positive things, we have to actually make an effort to do that. And that's I feel is, is the hardest part for people to do, and especially if you're in that negative thought process, anyway, you're always going to pick up on the negative. Rather than thinking of the positives that have happened. Yeah. Okay. So. Let's go to basics then many people in their driving lessons may have come across something called a reflective log. Yeah. Is quite often that you'll hear driving instructors talk about reflective logs. And actually I hear driving instructors say that they give out reflective logs, but their students don't use them. I think it depends on the student. Some people love You know, some people, however they, monitor, their learning from that lesson could be a mind map, could be a reflective log like you say, or it could be journaling. Which ever way suits that learner. It's fantastic. You'd mentioned the instructor, hands it to the pupil to do, and I think that's great. Because it is about the pupil. It's not about what I think or what someone else thinks. It's about what you think about your driving. For somebody who hasn't seen a reflective log or has never had this from the driving instructor. Let you say you can do it as journaling. You can do it as notes on your phone or written down. What sorts of things would you include in a reflective log? There's there's a really simple one and you can download it from the DVSA website. And I think it's on the ready to pass. Campaign, you can download one from there. But there's an even simpler one where you can just ask yourself three questions and the three questions are What went well? What didn't go so well. And what would you do different that would improve that drive? If you had to do it again? Okay. So that was three really basic questions. Isn't it. And I think sometimes you can, over-complicate it. But the basis of it is start off with what went well, that puts you in that positive mindset. And then think of what things go as well. So not potentially what went wrong, but just what didn't go as planned and then, how would you do it differently? What would you improve? So that it gets to a standard where you wanted to be. Okay great now, on our website for people who've subscribed to the website. We have, we don't call ours a reflective log. We call ours a learning log. Yeah. And, so the sort of questions that we ask on ours include well we ask people to do reflection in advance of their lessons. So to help them prepare for their lesson. As well as reflecting after the lesson. There's a few more, couple of extra things if you're struggling with your driving confidence, that actually you might find these extra questions useful. Yeah, So some of the sorts of things you might consider are reflecting on your mood and your emotions before, during and after a lesson. Yeah. Definitely. How you're feeling in the beginning? How are you feeling after that first drive? How are you feeling now at the end? Yeah, and remembering back to that detective work episode. The way that you're feeling your mood and your feelings will have an impact on your driving behavior. So reflecting on that could be really helpful. So we've also added in a reflection on your lesson as well. So again a bit more detail about your lesson that you've just had. Where you, again, it touches on what your thoughts and your feelings are. And when you reflecting on the lesson that you've just had. Thinking about how you would like to prepare for your next lesson Yes. So that you can actually prepare for your next lesson or your next drive. So you come to the lesson prepared, and this is what I've found out with my students. They're more likely to have success. Or have light bulb moments. If they come to the lesson prepared. And they've prepared the lesson. So we've chatted about what we're going to be doing in the next lesson. So they can write out a story. They can write out a mind map or they can answer the questions. Bring it to the lesson and then we just go through it very quickly. And then off we go. And again, I'd say most people that do this. When they start to drive. Actually have done the mental rehearsal already. Because they've reflected on what they want to do. Yeah. And also reflected on what they need to find out. Yeah. What still worrying them? Yeah. And like, I guess helps open up that conversation with you. Exactly. But it also highlights what skills they've already used in the past. That's going to help them for this task.