Driving lesson

My 17 year-old has been learning to drive.  It's been a relatively stress-free experience, but I imagine it will be very different when my daughter starts in about three years time.


In the car park at the rugby club this morning assorted dads were sharing their experiences (we'd all been driven to the game by our sons).

One parent commented that the strangest thing was learning again how to explain step by step the things that you took for granted after years of driving.

Which is exactly the challenge I've had - when you know something so well from years of experience its not actually intuitive.  One dad said driving was just a matter of hours behind the wheel.

I suppose that's what we forget as skilled professionals.  We've been doing comms so long we can't see why other people don't get the simplest things.

But if you make it too simplistic you risk patronising the managers or colleagues with whom you are working.

I might have come up with some other profound observations but another dad turned up in his new/vintage Mini and when they all started talking about camshafts and car restorations I had to run away...

Liam