Since the sixties, psychologists have noted that there are four levels of competence or learning. The first, known as “unconscious incompetence,” is when you don’t know what you don’t know.
1) Unconscious incompetence: Don’t know what you don’t know
2) Conscious incompetence: Know what you don’t know
3) Conscious competence: Exert concentration to perform the skill
4) Unconscious competence: Skill comes naturally (automated)
Key factor in all of these themes: the absence or presence of deliberate attention
