It's amazing how automatic out language can be. I was in my car today as another driver drove down the middle of the road slowly towards me, causing me to stop so that they could then drive around me (!)
Even though I remained calm and was not feeling cross, a complaint still sneaked out. "You need to move over, love."
As I say, I wasn't even feeling that cross. I even gave the lady a genuine smile as she went on her way. It was as if I was saying something that I didn't even agree with. I guess this is the conscious incompetence stage moving towards the conscious competence - at least I hope so....
(For those of you who aren't familiar with those terms, learning a new behaviour goes through the stages of unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, unconscious comepetence.)
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