Pick a skill that you’ve been learning or would like to develop.

Which of the 5 learning stages are you currently in with that particular skill?

• Unconscious incompetence – I don’t know what I don’t know.
• Conscious incompetence – I know what I don’t know, but I don’t know how to fix it.
• Conscious competence – I know what I don’t know and I can fix it if I think it through and do it carefully.
• Unconscious competence – I can do it without thinking.
• Conscious competence of unconscious competence – I can do it without thinking and then think back an analyze what I did in the light of the theory.

What do you need to do to move to the next stage in the learning process with this skill?

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