Breaking your fall guided template

breaking-the-fall.md

From a previous template?

• Yes

• No

Select a task/skill

Choose a skill or task that you know you are not very good at (high chance of making many errors).

Break it down

Break down this task into smaller and smaller steps or components until you feel that the chance of error for each individual step is very low. If you can't break down the task in this way, choose a different task!

• Can do it

• Too hard, starting a new template

Experiment with # of steps

Experiment with doing more of these steps in a single go.

(Note combinations of steps taken. Answer the two question underneath each. Maybe try: 1 step, 2 steps, 3 steps, 5 steps.)

1 step

2 steps

3 steps

5 steps

Reflect on chance and consequences

Go back and underneath each experiment, answer:

How did doing this affect your chance of making an error.

(Answer under each experiment)

Then answer here:

At what point do errors occur? Is it earlier or later than you expected? Reflect on the consequence of those errors. Are they smaller or greater than you expected?

(Answer here.)

• Done?

Too easy?

If you felt this was easy, choose another skill where the risk of error feels more significant and repeat from step 2.

• Too easy, starting a new template

• Reasonably difficult... done."