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You cannot change what you don’t know… but what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

One of the most important things I’ve learned is that you cannot change what you don’t know… but what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

Look at the four stages of learning:

1. Unconscious Incompetence : This person is incompetent in a certain area of knowledge, but he/she doesn’t know they’re incompetent because they are not conscious of any need for competency in that specific area of knowledge.
2. Conscious Incompetency : This person has become aware of a “new” area of knowledge, and have realized they don’t know how to operate in that area of knowledge.  We’ve all experienced this… like the first day on the job when you’re expected to learn how to operate a piece of machinery you’ve never even seen before.
3. Conscious Competency : Now the learning has begun, and the proper steps are taking place… but much thought must be put into the process as it’s taking place.  This is much like the child who has just begun to walk… They are not steady on their feet, and if they get distracted will lose their balance and fall to the floor.
4. Unconscious Competency : Mastery has been achieved.  This person now operates in an area of knowledge without even thinking about it.  Like the typist who never thinks about where their fingers need to be on the keyboard… or the cyclist who can simply enjoy his surroundings as he rides his bicycle.

The first step of this process is the most important.  One must first realize a change needs to take place before that change can be accomplished.

The first, and foremost, goal of this web site is to bring people to a place of realization that there is more to life than what they’ve been told.  Once someone accepts that premise they can then decide if they want to proceed and actually bring (positive) change.  But before one can make the decision, they must KNOW there is something beyond the status quo.  And, deep on the inside of each person, there is a knowing that there’s more to life than what they’ve experienced.

MORPHEUS: I can see it in your eyes.  You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.

We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical.  Have you ever wondered why?

As children, we do not separate the possible from the impossible, which is why the younger a mind is the easier it is to free, while a mind like yours can be very difficult.

NEO: Free from what?

MORPHEUS: From the Matrix.

Do you know what it is, Neo?

It’s that feeling you have had all your life.  That feeling that something was wrong with the world.  You don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad, driving you to me.  But what is it?

The Matrix is everywhere.  It’s all around us, here, even in this room.  You can see it out your window, or on your television.  You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes.  It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

NEO: What truth?

MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo.  That you, like everyone else, was born into bondage… kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste or touch.  A prison for your mind.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.  You have to see it for yourself.

from The Matrix
written by Andy and Larry Wachowski

Begin asking the question, “What is it that I do not see?”