Moving to unconscious competence

When learning something new, there are different stages of competencies that we go through.

Martin M. Broadwell, the management trainer, described the different stages as the four levels of teaching in February 1969, in his paper Teaching For Learning (XVI) (https://edbatista.typepad.com/files/teaching-for-learning-martin-broadwell-1969-conscious-competence-model.pdf).

The first stage is not knowing what you do not know. This stage is called unconscious incompetence.

Unconscious incompetence

Before you hear about a program such as OneNote, you do not know anything about it. You have never heard of it or seen it in action, so how would you know?

Let's find out how the next stage starts when we get conscious of our incompetence.

Conscious incompetence

Then, someone introduces OneNote to you. Now, you are aware that an application named OneNote exists, but you do not know how to use it. This is the next stage—conscious...