My late husband, Michael Stepanich, was a mechanical engineer with General Motors from the day he left the Air Force until the day he retired. He always admonished his job-hopping son, “I’ve had only two employers in my life––the U. S. Air Force and General Motors.” Of course, that was back in the day when employers valued loyal employees.
From the day we were married, Michael always told me I should have been an engineer. First, I’m pathologically curious as…..
Abraham Maslow, the creator of the Hierarchy of Needs pyramid (physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, then self-actualization) also proposed a model describing the stages of learning a skill. Recently, I became re-acquainted with this model while watching the DVD from The Great Courses entitled, “Mastering Stage Presence.” I began to think of this model from the perspective of learning and mastering the skill of writing for publication.
The four stages of learning skills are: Unconscious Incompetence, Conscious Incompetence, Conscious Competence, and…..
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