A man labeled "the boy with the broken brain" spent 15 years struggling with learning and public speaking. He breaks down how skills develop through five stages, from not knowing what you don't know to mastery through practice, using a broken-egg metaphor to show how struggle becomes transformation.
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I was labeled the boy with the broken brain. I grew up with learning challenges. I struggled for almost 15 years of my life. My 2 biggest challenges in life were learning and public speaking, because what do I do? I public speak on the subject called what? Learning. But I do believe your mess can become your message. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. But if it's broken by an inside force, Life begins. All great things begin from the inside. There are 5 stages to learning any subject or skill faster. 5 stages of learning. Now, the first stage— I would encourage you to write this down— is unconscious incompetence. What does that mean? Unconscious means you're not aware of something. Incompetence means you can't do something. So you don't know you don't know how to do something. You could say this is stage 1 where you found out about this super brain, this super memory. You didn't even realize that this was even available to you, and you didn't realize that this was something that you weren't maybe good at in the first place. So that's stage 1, unconscious incompetence. You don't know you don't know. Now, the second stage of learning anything is the stage of conscious incompetence. Incompetent. That means you know you don't know. You know that a super brain is there, or super memory is there, but you know that you haven't developed it yet. You're consciously incompetent. Now, the 3rd stage of learning something is a stage called conscious competence. That means you're competent, you could do something, but it takes your conscious attention to it. It's kind of like when you first learned how to type. Or tie your shoes, you could do it, but it takes your conscious attention. It takes your conscious attention to learn how to park the car. It's your conscious attention to be able to remember someone's name, for instance. Now that's a big leap, right? And that's where you are right now. You could do a lot of these techniques. It takes your conscious focus and attention to do so. So the 4th stage of learning is this stage called unconscious competence. This is the stage where you practice so much you become unconscious about it, where you could do it like you're driving the car. You're not thinking about driving. You could tie your shoes. You're not thinking about tying your shoes. You just do it because you're at the level of what they call second nature, right? You're unconsciously competent. You could do it and you don't have to put a lot of thought and attention because you've done it so much. So what's the key to get from 3 to 4? From the 3rd stage to the 4th stage, where you're consciously competent to unconsciously competent, because that would be the goal, right? So what's the actual secret? It's just practice, right? Because practice makes what? Practice makes progress. That this is not the end, it's just the beginning, and it requires practice. So the bad news is it takes effort, but the good news, it doesn't take as much effort.
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