The Gift of a New Perspective

Now, what's so interesting about perspective is we don't know what we don't know.

Now, there's an interesting psychology concept.

that we talk about.

And this has come in so handy.

I remember when I first learned it, I thought this should be in like required learning for everyone.

And it's called the conscious competency ladder.

Okay, so this is a psychology tool that's called the conscious competency ladder.

Now, the first rung of the ladder or base of the ladder is unconsciously incompetent.

They don't even know that they don't know.

Okay, that's unconsciously incompetent.

They don't even know that they don't know.

The next one is consciously incompetent.

They at least know that they don't know.

And like, this isn't a hierarchy of like better, better, best, or good, better, best.

This is literally how people understand information.

You don't know what you don't know.

So it's not that like unconsciously incompetent.

It doesn't sound like a compliment.

It's not really meant to be a compliment, but it's also not meant to be a diss because like you don't know what you don't know just is the reality.

Okay.

Bear with me.

So then you get to a point as you learn, as you grow, that you start to like realize, damn, I don't know this.

Okay.

So now you're aware that you don't know it.

the third step is conscious competence so like we know we know okay so before we like knew we didn't know now we're on step three of this ladder and we're like okay i know i know this and step four is unconsciously competent like this is just mastery it's like autopilot like you don't even have to think about it anymore like this is just what you know to be true All this to be said, when I think about the idea of perspective, to me, it's this like amazing realization that it's like I don't have to feel bad that I didn't know it or I didn't see the world that way before.