Skipper Johnson
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Psychologists have a nice way of categorising the learning of a new skill. They break the learning process into 4 stages. I can relate to these stages.
Stage 1. Unconscious Incompetence. ie You don't know how bad you are. When I proclaimed I was on the way to the Olympics, I was at stage 1. I had not yet realised how much there was to know and how bad I was!
Stage 2. Conscience Incompetence. At this stage, you are no longer blissfully ignorant. You have learnt enough to know that you are crap.
Stage 3. Conscience Competence. You know what you need to do and are aware of how to do it but the skill is not yet automatic.
Stage 4. Unconscience Competence. Once you get to this stage, the skills come automatically. For example, executing a roll tack from instinct rather than trying to remember each step in the process.
All of this is a long way of saying that I am crap! I thought I would try sailing by the lee on Saturday. Unfortunately the wind was to light and variable it was a disaster.
Anyway, here's hoping I move into Stage 3 sometime in the next year!
Stage 1. Unconscious Incompetence. ie You don't know how bad you are. When I proclaimed I was on the way to the Olympics, I was at stage 1. I had not yet realised how much there was to know and how bad I was!
Stage 2. Conscience Incompetence. At this stage, you are no longer blissfully ignorant. You have learnt enough to know that you are crap.
Stage 3. Conscience Competence. You know what you need to do and are aware of how to do it but the skill is not yet automatic.
Stage 4. Unconscience Competence. Once you get to this stage, the skills come automatically. For example, executing a roll tack from instinct rather than trying to remember each step in the process.
All of this is a long way of saying that I am crap! I thought I would try sailing by the lee on Saturday. Unfortunately the wind was to light and variable it was a disaster.
Anyway, here's hoping I move into Stage 3 sometime in the next year!