And so it Begins...

In the 1970's a theory of learning described as "Four Stages for Learning Any New Skill was developed by a psychologist by the name of Thomas Gordon. In his theory he defined four main stages of learning and awareness that each and every person goes through when learning a new skill.

The four stages are as follows:

1. Unconscious incompetence
     - An individual does not know/understand a skill and they may deny its usefulness
2. Conscious incompetence
     -An individual does not know/understand a skill, but they understand the benefit in learning it
3. Conscious competence
     -An individual starts to learn how to use the skill
4. Unconscious competence
     -An individual has so much practice with a skill that it becomes "second nature"

It is this fourth stage of learning that I hope to be able to improve upon by writing this blog. You see, you can read, replicate and do something as many times over as you want, but you will still not fully understand it until you are able to teach it. I hope to be able to regurgitate the knowledge I learn via tutorials and documents in this blog in an interesting, understandable manner to help me fully understand the concepts at hand.

In doing so, this will force me to critically think about the concepts at hand and how to apply them to different situations. In essence - it will force me to review the material instead of just reading it.