Warning: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Do you ever have a project running along and feel like you have it all under control, then suddenly something comes up and completely derails it? Have you ever called tech support over a problem which you have worked on for hours and hours if not days and the tech solves it for you in a couple minutes by telling you to do a simple step you hadn’t thought of? Are you scared to start something because you don’t know what to do and fear failure? You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know The problem is you don’t know what you don’t know. I spent a number of years in the military and we used the saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know” always to remind us that there were things about the situation which we didn’t know. Really though, this has a much deeper meaning. The idea is that there are different levels of understanding. You have to have at least an idea of where you are with a particular subject. Otherwise you will be hit by something unexpected or end up spinning your wheels on a subject where you really don’t know much about. The different levels of understanding are: · Unconscious Incompetence · Conscious Incompetence · Conscious Competence · Unconscious Competence In the first two questions, I asked at the beginning of the post, you are operating in unconscious incompetence. For the project, you didn’t know about the outside factor that was going to wreck your project. With the tech issue, you simply didn’t know about the simple solu...
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