Knowledge, learning and awareness: Relevant right now (see procrastination)

[azekeil]

You know when you embark on a task, you realise it's going to require some learning. I think there are four stages to this learning process (I've googled but I can't find anything that quite matches what I'm going to say here):

		Knowledge
		don't have	have
Awareness	aware	2. Discovery 3. Pain 1. Ignorance 4. Victory!
	unaware

1. Ignorance. Here you aren't aware you don't have the knowledge, and you also don't have the knowledge. Ignorance is bliss!
2. Discovery. You start on the task and become quickly aware that you don't have the knowledge.
3. Pain. You start learning about the knowledge, but all you are aware of at this stage is just how much you don't know! Pain! (incidentally, this is where I am now and hence why I'm procrastinating *grin*)
4. Victory! You have the knowledge and are no longer aware of the lack of it.

Aside: isn't know a stupid word?!

Comments

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Damnit! Throughout my life I've reinvented stuff that others have invented. When I was young I thought that I was astonishingly clever. As I grew older I got depressed because anything I thought of had almost certainly been thought of before.

Nowadays I think if someone else hasn't thought of it then it can't be a particularly sound idea...

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

It is no less of an achievement to have rediscovered something now thought of as a cornerstone of learning theory. ^_^

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

And as most inventions: it was by accident or as a by-product of something else :)

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

See also: known knowns and unknown unknowns?

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

You're not thick, you were just born too late ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I started out with that but it didn't quite measure up to what I was trying to say..

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Clearly. Although I think I was standing on the shoulders of giants, of course ;)

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

That 1,2,3,4 sequence just made me immediately think:
1) broke :(
2) idea!
3) ???????
4) PROFIT!!

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Step 3 usually does involve pain, yes. ;)

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

PS: 4 = 1. Any time you think you know everything you find some new stuff. Or at least I do.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

It's all a matter of definition of your problem domain. I think actually what's happening is that you keep expanding your problem domain ;)

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Erm, yeah, I suspect you've hit the nail on the head.

It's not like it's going to stay still for me though...

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Nor me, but then that's what life's all about, isn't it?