I recently taught a student, and gave her the pass to do the real test, but she kept booking lessons.
After a bit more talk to her, I found out that she was trying to convince herself, “Im not good enough”. While I can teach her all the technical skills, and she is good enough anyway, I felt that I needed to change her self-talk.
So I explained to her that she is good enough, and I know what Im talking about, I even had to say “I know the test a bit more than you do”. Finally she was a bit more convinced that she was good enough, she went, and got it!
