I did a course at work a few years ago called "Situational Leadership", all about assessing people's readiness levels for tasks which had a similar thing. In theory, everybody goes through these four stages in acquiring a new skill.
Unconscious Incompetence (you don't know how much you don't know - high morale , low ability)
Conscious Incompetence (you do know how much you don't know - low morale, low ability)
Unconscious Competence (you don't realise how much you know - low morale, higher ability)
Conscious Competence (you're there - high morale, high ability)
The idea being to recognise where on this scale people are by their words and behaviour and adjust your leadership style accordingly...
Off the top of my head that sounds good. How is that Binary though?
Further, if you accept knowledge of any one thing (an idea, an object etc) how can you know that that is the object you are transfering knowledge too, when you tell someone else? Its like memes (READ DAWKINS LINUS), if you transfer an idea to someone else, do you know that they now know the same idea? Or is it a new idea, created in the own head that is just similar to the one you have? What I am wondering is... is there ever any singular idea, concept or thing that exists with a constant 'meaning' or 'identity'?
Just seen how that is binary.. Interesting idea, progression of possession of knowledge expressed through binary? Although that implies a direct progression from better to worse, and I would like to just be able to know where the unknowns are! Hmmm...
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too complicated, though :) however, pretty interesting...
It's binary, innit?
00, 01, 10, 11
I did a course at work a few years ago called "Situational Leadership", all about assessing people's readiness levels for tasks which had a similar thing. In theory, everybody goes through these four stages in acquiring a new skill.
Unconscious Incompetence (you don't know how much you don't know - high morale , low ability)
Conscious Incompetence (you do know how much you don't know - low morale, low ability)
Unconscious Competence (you don't realise how much you know - low morale, higher ability)
Conscious Competence (you're there - high morale, high ability)
The idea being to recognise where on this scale people are by their words and behaviour and adjust your leadership style accordingly...
Ah...
Off the top of my head that sounds good. How is that Binary though?
Further, if you accept knowledge of any one thing (an idea, an object etc) how can you know that that is the object you are transfering knowledge too, when you tell someone else? Its like memes (READ DAWKINS LINUS), if you transfer an idea to someone else, do you know that they now know the same idea? Or is it a new idea, created in the own head that is just similar to the one you have? What I am wondering is... is there ever any singular idea, concept or thing that exists with a constant 'meaning' or 'identity'?
Just seen how that is binary.. Interesting idea, progression of possession of knowledge expressed through binary? Although that implies a direct progression from better to worse, and I would like to just be able to know where the unknowns are! Hmmm...
If you know where the unknowns were wouldn't new unknows just emerge which you didn't know about!
I like his quote, it always fills me with a bit of satisfaction when I am reminded that we don't know everything and will never know everything.
Its reassuring to know that there are unknown unknowns!
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