The Pattern

When I was writing “AAAA” I tried to incorporate this pattern that I learned while reading articles in the internet. This pattern is written in many forms and I found it later in John Maxwell’s “21 Irrefutable laws of Leadership" and in Robin Sharma’s “The Saint, the Surfer and The CEO”. With the two in one blog, I saw that one is outstanding and when I modified it, the other one takes all the attention so I decided to separate them.

The pattern is The quadrants of learning. I placed it in a table where it really belongs. The quadrants are:

Quadrant I, is where we are not aware that such a skill is existent and that we lack the skill. Relating to the previous post, it is the time when I am hearing complaint and do not know how to handle them.

Quadrant II is the stage where you learn that there is such a skill, but is of course inexperienced in that field. It is when one accepted the need for the skill and devotes time to practice to acquire that skill - This is the time when I learned that there is such a thing as the 4A’s but do not know yet how to deliver and use them.

Applying and practicing the know knowledge or skill and gaining experience from it is the bridge that will connect you to Quadrant III. At this stage, you already have experience and have been using the discovered skill.

As you go on and practice them often, it will then become a part of you and will be unaware that you are already using them when needed; this will bring you to Quadrant IV. This stage is also called the stage of Mastery. As I said before, I can now handle complaint without the use of any visual aids.

This makes blogging easier because I have a pattern to be used when it comes to learned knowledge or skills.

	Unconscious	Conscious
Incompetence	Quadrant I Unconscious Incompetence	Quadrant II Conscious Incompetence
Competence	Quadrant IV Unconscious Competence	Quadrant III Conscious Competence