Today, we take a quick look at the psychological prerequisites to learning. This is summed up in the learning success pyramid, where we find that confidence (I can do this) and self-management (I will make a plan for how to do this) are paramount to effective learning. We could even go as far as to say that they are prerequisites to learning; how are you going to learn to speak Norwegian if you can’t create a coherent plan for learning and also believe that it is within your abilities to do so?