+1 · Trapdoor
A Skill Gap.
Trapdoor
Not a block—learn it, or rule it out.
A missing capability that mimics a block. It feels like being stuck, but no amount of coaching will move it—because there is nothing hidden to uncover.
Sounds like you?
- I don’t know how to do this yet
- It’s not fear—it’s a gap
- I need to learn the craft
- I’m guessing at the technique
What is often underneath
Nothing hidden—this one is honest. The response is teaching or deliberate practice, not coaching, and we say so rather than keeping you inside the service.
What usually helps
The response is learning, not coaching, and the honest version saves time and money. Name the specific capability that is missing—not “I am not good enough” but the actual technique, tool or craft. Then find teaching, deliberate practice, or someone who can show you. Worth saying: a real skill gap very often creates genuine blocks on top of itself. Repeated failure at something you have not yet learned produces real avoidance and a real knock to confidence, and those are worth working on.
If it is a skill gap, coaching is the wrong tool and we will say so. A Block Check is the cheapest way to find out which one you are in.
One of the 7 + 1 domains in our blocks’ map. A starting hypothesis, not a diagnosis.
Read more on this block
The other blocks
Starting & DoingConfidence & ExposureDirection & MeaningEnergy & RecoveryThe Work ItselfStructure & WorkflowContext & Support
*A starting point—not a diagnosis or a definitive answer.
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