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

Control

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

Good & Bad

"It's never as good as it looks, or as bad as it seems." - Rich Gelfond

Plans

“No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.” - Douglas MacArthur

Smile

"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks." – Charles Gordy

Goals

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” - Arnold Toynbee

Success & Failure

"Want to double your success rate, double your failure rate." - Thomas Watson, co-founder of IBM

Controversy

"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." - William Hazlitt

Experts

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

Your best

"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux

Wealth and fame

"Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate xx" - Stephen Fry on Twitter

Knowledge

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." - H. L. Mencken

Perfection

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." - Samuel McChord Crothers

You can

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right." -
Henry Ford

Attitudes

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James, American psychologist and philosopher, (1842-1910)

Regret

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." -Sydney Harris

Achieving greatly

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

Inspiration

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." (Frank Tibolt)

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Identity

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

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Happiness

"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way." (John Stuart Mill)

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