The Slow Leadership blog has a great post on “Conscious Incompetence.”
If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly first. In the real world, doing something new almost always means doing it poorly the first few times. Improvising never produces a polished result, but it’s nearly always the first step towards creating something new and worthwhile. To do something new, you have to make a conscious decision to let yourself try things that you know you can’t do. That’s practicing “Conscious Incompetence.”
It served as a much needed reminder of how I learned what I know. There was lots of trial and error along the way. I highly recommend this post for those who’ve gotten really good at what they do and seldom venture outside of that area of expertise.
