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Adult Learning Model

Four stages of competence · explored through Jared Tendler

ABOUT THIS FRAMEWORK

The model moves through unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. Tendler uses it to explain why recognizing a problem is different from correcting it reliably.

The stages are a useful model, not a rigid biological timetable or a reason to put every decision on autopilot.

A CLOSER LOOK

The story behind it.

A way to distinguish noticing a weakness, performing with attention, and developing a more automatic skill.

Four stages of competence

The model moves from not recognizing a missing skill, to recognizing it, to performing with attention, to performing without deliberate monitoring of every step.

Knowing and doing separate

Tendler uses the model to distinguish an idea a player understands from a skill the player can execute under pressure. The distinction explains why insight may precede reliable performance.

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