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March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
The Path To Mastery, The Consciousness Competency Matrix
Ever wondered why some people make so much money, create wealth and build fortunes with easy? Well is matter of understanding this information and when you will look at it you will never be the same again. Making money and creating wealth as everything else is a learnable skill like driving, mowing the lawn, playing soccer, swimming, eating, etc.
Did you know that there is a way to describe this path from grasshopper to Master?
Yes this is the Path To Mastery…so let me introduce…
The Five Stage of Learning…AKA: The Conscious Competence Ladder, Conscious Competence Matrix, Learning Matrix
It is reported that there are five (5) main stages to learning. In psychology, the five stages of competence, or the “Conscious Competence” learning model relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill.
When we find that we don’t know something important, we’re often motivated to learn more. However if we’re blissfully unaware of our ignorance, there’s little we can do about it.
One of the first steps on the journey to acquiring new skills is therefore to be aware of what you don’t know. This discovery can be uncomfortable, as can be the experience of not being very good at what you’re trying to do (as you won’t be, when you first start to learn.)
The Conscious Competence Ladder is a popular and intuitive approach (attributed to many different possible originators) that helps us manage our own emotions during a sometimes dispiriting learning process. More than this, it helps us to be more in touch with the emotions of the people we are teaching, so we can better coach them through the learning process.
Explaining the Model:
According to this approach, Consciousness and Awareness is the first step towards gaining knowledge. To learn new skills and to gain knowledge you need to be conscious of what you do and do not know. (E.g.: What do you know about money? And what you do not know?)
Next, competence is your ability to do things. You may be highly competent in one area, but have no skill in another. Your competence level will depend on the task or job at hand. (E.g.: The vehicle to make money, expertise, business model, stocks, trading commodities…the skills developed)
The idea is that as you build expertise in a new area, you move from “Unconscious Incompetence” to “Conscious Incompetence” and then to “Conscious Competence”, finally reaching “Unconscious Competence” and the “Enlightened Competence” . These are explained below:
Level 1 – Unconscious Incompetence
(You Don’t Know that You Don’t Know)
At this level you are blissfully ignorant: You have a complete lack of knowledge and skills in the subject in question. On top of this, you are unaware of this lack of skill, and your confidence may therefore far exceed your abilities.
Level 2 – Conscious Incompetence
(You Know that You Don’t Know)
At this level you find that there are skills you need to learn, and you may be shocked to discover that there are others who are much more competent than you. As you realize that your ability is limited, your confidence drops. You go through an uncomfortable period as you learn these new skills when others are much more competent and successful than you are.
Level 3 – Conscious Competence
(You Know that You Know)
At this level you acquire the new skills and knowledge. You put your learning into practice and you gain confidence in carrying out the tasks or jobs involved. You are aware of your new skills and work on refining them. You are still concentrating on the performance of these activities, but as you get ever-more practice and experience, these become increasingly automatic.
Level 4 – Unconscious Competence
(You Don’t Know that You Know – It Just Seems Easy!)
At this level your new skills become habits, and you perform the task without conscious effort and with automatic ease. This is the peak of your confidence and ability.
Level 5 – Conscious Competence of Unconscious Competence (CCUC) “Enlightened Competence” (You Know that You Know of what You Don’t Know that You Know ) – Conscious of my own unconscious competence. At this level, the person has not only mastered the physical skill to a highly efficient and accurate level which does not anymore require of him conscious, deliberate and careful execution of the skill but instead done instinctively and reflexively, requiring minimum efforts with maximum quality output, and is able to understand the very dynamics and scientific explanation of his own physical skills. In other words, he comprehends fully and accurately the what, when, how and why of his own skill and possibly those of others on the same skill he has. In addition to this, he is able to transcend and reflect on the physical skill itself and be able to improve on how it is acquired and learned at even greater efficiency with lower energy investment.
Using the Tool:
The Conscious Competence Ladder helps us in two ways: It gives us reassurance when we need it, and it helps us coach ourselves and others through a sometimes difficult learning process.
During the Conscious Incompetence phase, we have the reassurance that while things are difficult and frustrating right now, things will get much better in the future. And when we’re at the stage of Unconscious Competence, the model reminds us to value the skills we have so painstakingly acquired.
As an approach to learn how to make money or create wealth, it reminds us that we may be moving through these steps as we learn the new skills:
Unconscious Incompetence: At the beginning of the process, we may be unaware of our own lack of competence, and may need to be made gently aware of how much we need to learn.
Conscious Incompetence: During this stage, we’ll need to provide plenty of encouragement, tolerate mistakes appropriately, and do what we can to improve.
Conscious Competence: At this stage we need to keep focused on effective performance of the task, and get plenty of practice and repetition.
Unconscious Competence: Although this is the ideal state, we’ll need to make sure that people avoid complacency, and stay abreast of our fields. we may also need to remind ourselves how difficult it was to reach this state.
I think the really important thing to take away from this information is as follows: when you find what it is you want to do – know where you are on the level and take the necessary steps to move on to the next step up. Knowing is half the Journey! Has it been said: Knowledge Is Power and Action close the Gaps.
Live Consciously
Ettore
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