The Philosophy of Persistence

We have talked a lot about the need for planning when it comes to preparing for the Driving Test but one of the major problems for learner drivers is that they come to a roadblock with certain manoeuvres. Let’s face it... we all have different skills which manifest themselves in different ways when it comes to Learning to Drive

Everyone learns at a different rate but that doesn’t mean that a driver who takes longer to master a particular skill is not going to make a superb and skilful Driver eventually. Slower learners will make excellent Drivers given time and determination and possibly even better and safer than the person who seems initially to be more skilful.

It is human nature to want to give up a task if no progress is being made or if it’s painfully slow and perhaps come back to it at a later stage. This is not the best solution when it comes to driving. Hoping that you are not going to need a particular skill and just keeping your fingers crossed is a dangerous philosophy. Nothing creates more worry and stress than the prospect of Reversing ,which is why here at Astral Driving School we commence reversing from the very first lesson.

A much better solution is to realise that it may take longer than you had envisaged mastering a specific manoeuvre and just accepting this fact and practise, practise, practise! If it is going to take thirty or forty attempts to get, for example you’re reversing manoeuvres up to a satisfactory standard, then do it!

 I promise you that the end result will be worth it and you will be a much better driver for having used the philosophy of Persistence. Once you have achieved a level of competence in a previously difficult exercise, you will never have difficulty again in facing up to a Driving Challenge.

The following paragraph should be read and digested several times.

It is by one of the early American Presidents…Calvin Coolidge:-

                                Persistence.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

The Slogan"press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race!