duo-learner-motivation
Keep people attempting a skill they believe they are bad at — by lowering what it costs to be visibly wrong, replacing unscoreable goals with ones they can hit, pre-announcing how bad early progress will feel, and supplying the attribution that turns a failure into information instead of a verdict. Use when users churn in week two saying they are "not good at this", when nobody will try the scary core action, when a promise like "fluent" or "proficient" or "mastery" gives users no win to register, when hard content reads as a test rather than a puzzle, or when you need words for a plateau. Triggers on "users say they're bad at it", "week two churn", "they won't try the main feature", "how do I set a goal that doesn't demoralize", "onboarding feels like a test", "what do I say when progress slows", "should I tell users they don't need all of it".
- Version
- 2.0.0
- License
- MIT
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- skills/duo-learner-motivation/SKILL.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/anxiety-spends-the-same-budget-as-the-task.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/attribution-decides-whether-they-continue.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/declassify-the-perceived-prerequisite.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/decompose-a-goal-nobody-can-score.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/exposure-and-need-are-both-required.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/flag-the-stretch-goal-as-a-stretch.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/lower-the-cost-of-the-first-public-attempt.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/pre-announce-how-bad-it-will-feel.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/reframe-the-difficulty-rather-than-removing-it.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/set-success-at-functional-adequacy.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/ship-an-easier-variant-for-people-who-failed-before.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/suppress-the-noise-so-the-blocking-error-is-audible.md
- skills/duo-learner-motivation/references/the-blocker-is-willingness-to-be-visibly-bad.md
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