Understand that when you are confused you are learning

When we understand something fully, we are contented and have stopped growing. However, during the learning phase of anything we are often confused. It is during this time that we are learning new skills or new facts.

Remember when you first learned to ride a bike or learned to skate. At first you kept falling off and perhaps for an instance you imagined that you would never learn that skill. Soon your confusion disappeared and then you had the new skill for life.

At first when we learn a new task, we don’t know what to do. This is called conscious incompetence. Next we learn and slowly we have to consciously struggle to do the task. This is the conscious competence phase of learning.  Finally, as we internalize the new skills, we get unconscious competence and we no longer have to consciously think about the task.

Thus when you have unconscious competence the task becomes automatic, the confusion disappears and you hardly remember the time when you did not have this skill. It is like you drive on the freeway and you go into a "freeway trance" and the next instant you are forty miles away and you don’t remember how you got there but you know you drove well.

A problem is that sometimes we give up during the beginning phase of learning a new task. The I Ching calls this phase: "Difficulty at the beginning ." It suggests that at such times one may need to pause and think. One should persevere and constantly keep the goal in sight. One may need helpers and mentors at such times. A spirit of honest humility will attract those helpers and mentors.

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