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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Four Stages of Learning

1. Unconscious incompetence – what you don’t know you don’t know. You can live in this state of blissful ignorance for a lifetime, or until you begin something new. At which point, you become aware of your lack of skills and reach the state of:

2. Conscious incompetence – what you know you don’t know. It’s only at this point that we begin to learn new skills, and gain the expertise and experience needed to move forward. With sufficient practice, we reach the next stage:

3. Conscious competence – what you know you know. With further practice, we reach

4. Unconscious competence – this is what we don’t know we know. Our skills and expertise are so much a part of who we are and what we do that we don’t even think about them. We no longer recognize we have that skill, that behaviour, that attitude, that belief.

Abraham Maslow

Friday, July 02, 2010

Control

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti