Dear Mr. Rose,
Have you ever tried to learn a new skill for your personal development? Maybe learn a new language and fail miserable? You try and try again, but it’s just isn’t working for you. You sit back and wonder why! If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Z. Hereford author of The Four Stages of Learning a Skill cracked down on the four stages to learning a new skill.
If you are like me, and do not pick up on a skill quickly, it gets boring, you get frustrated and you’re on to the next thing. Hereford identifies the first stage as “Unconscious Incompetence”. He explains this by stating the obvious, how do you know what your problem is or even to identify why you are not picking up on this new skill. You don’t know what to fix or how to go about fixing this situation.
Maybe the first stage isn’t you. Maybe you know what the problem is but just don’t know how to fix it. This is the second stage he calls “Conscious Incompetence”. With this you might understand the concept of this skill, but just can’t put everything in the right spots in order for you to actually get this new found skill down. This can get devastating and encourage you to stop.
Still reading and the first two stages aren’t you. Well congratulations this might be your stage. Stage three is called “Conscious Competence”. With this stage you …show more content…
Or maybe that’s you know, figure out what stage you are stuck on, pick the skill up and take it one step at a time. People want to find a skill and thinks it looks easy, until they actually do it. Take riding a bike for instance you looked at it and thought to yourself that’s easy until you got on a fell the first six times. You wanted to give up but you didn’t! Now you’re riding your bike in downtown Atlanta with your family. The moral of this letter is to look at life as a new skill, keep trying until something works for
Have you ever tried to learn a new skill for your personal development? Maybe learn a new language and fail miserable? You try and try again, but it’s just isn’t working for you. You sit back and wonder why! If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Z. Hereford author of The Four Stages of Learning a Skill cracked down on the four stages to learning a new skill.
If you are like me, and do not pick up on a skill quickly, it gets boring, you get frustrated and you’re on to the next thing. Hereford identifies the first stage as “Unconscious Incompetence”. He explains this by stating the obvious, how do you know what your problem is or even to identify why you are not picking up on this new skill. You don’t know what to fix or how to go about fixing this situation.
Maybe the first stage isn’t you. Maybe you know what the problem is but just don’t know how to fix it. This is the second stage he calls “Conscious Incompetence”. With this you might understand the concept of this skill, but just can’t put everything in the right spots in order for you to actually get this new found skill down. This can get devastating and encourage you to stop.
Still reading and the first two stages aren’t you. Well congratulations this might be your stage. Stage three is called “Conscious Competence”. With this stage you …show more content…
Or maybe that’s you know, figure out what stage you are stuck on, pick the skill up and take it one step at a time. People want to find a skill and thinks it looks easy, until they actually do it. Take riding a bike for instance you looked at it and thought to yourself that’s easy until you got on a fell the first six times. You wanted to give up but you didn’t! Now you’re riding your bike in downtown Atlanta with your family. The moral of this letter is to look at life as a new skill, keep trying until something works for