Does the idea or returning to adult education strike fear into your heart? Many people love the idea of going out on cold winter evenings to learn something new and exciting, but they are also terrified, and the fear will usually win.

I know from my coaching practice that many adults feel grim at the prospect of going back to school. Memories of their school experiences the first time round - unpleasant memories - crowd in, and - because of the way our brains work - those memories come with the negative emotions they caused at the time - they tend not to be filtered through your adult intellect - so they are raw, and they carry more power than they should do.

As well as this abject terror, many people contemplating a return to study feel they carry unique debilitating shortcomings which would rule them out as a student. They feel they're no good with maths, or their English - spelling, punctuation or vocabulary is embarrassingly poor, or they may feel that they're just not very clever. All of these perceptions lead these people to shy away from the prospect of a return to education. It spells doom. It will end in tears. It's pointless, futile, and pathetic, they say, and they say it angrily.

The Nature of Fear

But really it's all about fear, which, you may recall from articles elsewhere on the website, stands for:

False
Expectations
Appearing
Real

In other words, the things you fear are mirages - outcomes which are simply not credible. People resist this notion, but it's always true and when I show them in our work together, they often spontaneously laugh out loud. The door just fell open. They were trapping themselves.

Trust me - I Stink

Where is all this going?

Of course, I'm not trying to tell you your recollections are wrong (though they probably are exaggerated, and over-generalised - sorry!), but I'm saying that you can have a fascinating new life as an adult student, learning new skills and meeting new people. The things which keep you from reaching out and grasping that new opportunity are products of your own mind, and should not be allowed to stop you from growing.

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