Step 1: I can't see my mistakes when doing any of the techniques from the ICS course to correct them. I always feel like I'm doing everything right.

Step 2:

1. How did you feel? I felt uncertain about my performance, despite following the instructions correctly. I wondered if I was missing something. I was left with the feeling that I was not progressing in technique properly. This contributes to me wanting to perform the technique less and less, despite its effectiveness, which could be even better.

2. When did you experience this feeling? After I had finished practising a technique.

3. If you have experienced difficulties, at what points? Difficulties appear before the beginning of the session, where the realisation comes that after this practice, my mastery of a technique will become only slightly faster, not better in quality.

4. Were there any triggers? Intrusive thoughts after the end of practice that say I can't do this technique well enough due to lack of much experience and small COLBS cycle. Trigger is the end of practice.

5. How did you react? My reaction was to watch Justin's Live Clinic and compare my own and other people's good work. I marked the criteria just as Justin did, but saw no flaws. I also tried to redo and train the LLM to identify my mistakes, but that doesn't work with most techniques. I wanted to find that gap, that phantom error that keeps me stuck I find it hard to kill myself that I'm doing it right since no one can do well/excellent after practising a couple of times. I was trying to prove to myself that I was growing and improving myself every day, not treading water.

6. Were there any factors that may have influenced your experience prior to the experience? One key factor is that Justin always talked about KOLBS cycles and that we learn and improve from our mistakes. Another is the fact that Justin talked about the unconscious incompetence I might find myself in.

7. What did you do at each step? Try to make a step-by-step narrative or chronology of events. As soon as I sit down to study (performance techniques), I get a little nervous, but quickly get sucked in. After the practical session I try to analyse what mistakes I made, I can feel them but can't find them. After that I watch Live Clinic, write down the important points about performing the technique and compare my own and other people's examples. If I can't find any mistakes, I just leave my work, thinking that maybe it's not so bad, it doesn't have any mistakes that I can recognise at this stage of the course.

8. How did you respond to difficulties or challenges? I reviewed all of the items Justin checked, checked my notes carefully, and reviewed old videos about the techniques in the course itself. I wrote out in my notes the small items I should follow, I copied them from the course itself so they should be correct.

9. How did you feel before, during and after the event? At the beginning of the training everything was more or less normal, but after the end and even during the lesson I was still thinking that I was doing something wrong, in my opinion things were not going smoothly and could be done much better.

Step 3:

1. How do I tend to act in these kinds of situations I tend to act with a perfectionistic mindset In situations where I'm trying to master a technique, I tend to focus on achieving perfection rather than progress. This leads me to feel uncertain and frustrated when I don't see immediate improvement, even if I'm following instructions correctly.

2. What about my approach or perspective or overall strategy made me prone to making this error? My approach is overly reliant on self-assessment: I tend to rely too heavily on my own judgment to identify mistakes, which can be flawed and biased. This approach makes me prone to overlooking errors or misattributing them to lack of experience or skill.

3. Do I make similar mistakes in other areas as well? I will be able to notice that I think through every detail to the usual responses from friends, format the message/check for grammatical errors. In programming, I have the idea of an ideal program that should use the optimal amount of resources.

4. What habits do I seem to have in certain types of situations that make me I have a habit of seeking external validation: In situations where I'm unsure about my performance, I tend to seek validation from others (e.g., watching Justin's Live Clinic, comparing my work to others) rather than trusting my own process and focusing on incremental improvement. This habit can distract me from my own growth and progress.

I have a fear of unconscious incompetence: Justin's discussions about unconscious incompetence have made me hyper-aware of the possibility that I might be doing something wrong without realizing it. This fear can lead me to overanalyze and second-guess myself, rather than focusing on the process of improvement.

Step 4: For the next 4 practice sessions, I will dedicate 10-15 minutes after each session to journaling and reflecting on my performance. I will ask myself specific questions, such as:

• What did I do well?
• What areas do I need to improve on?
• What mistakes did I make, and how can I avoid them in the future?
• What did I learn, and how can I apply it to future practice sessions? I will use this reflection time to identify patterns and areas for improvement, and to develop a growth mindset.