Four stages of competence
Where do you live?
This research on the 4 stages of Competence is a brilliant explanation to that effect.
Let us begin by asking and clarifying the following questions -
What is Conscious?
What is Competence?
What is Unconscious ?
What is Incompetence?
Where do you live?
Richard Thompson
Life Long Learner
1 . Unconscious incompetence
1. Unconscious incompetence – The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it. In short, you don’t know what you don’t know.
2. Conscious incompetence
3. Conscious competence
4. Unconscious competence
Example
A good example of this is learning how to drive. When you first learn how to drive a manual stick shift, you very quickly learn that you don’t know how to do it (conscious incompetence). As you practice you can start to think your way through it (the conscious competence stage). As driving the stick shift becomes a habit for you, eventually you can drive without thinking, shifting gears effortlessly while you think about other things (unconscious competence.)
Another example I like is when I first learned how to type. My mom taught me from scratch and I remember practicing her method countless times. I built unconscious competence soon after and I could type pretty quick as a result. Today my skill to type quick really helps me a great deal and saves a lot of time.
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