Easily one of the best articles I’ve read this year. FWIW: The first time I heard of the consciousness/competence matrix was from Petrula Vrontikis. Thanks for sharing a great food-for-thought piece!

Meri, this article is awesome. My wife and I are creating our own business, and I have felt overwhelmed lately trying to learn all of the things I need to know. This has been a bit chaotic and created stress and fears that I might not be able to do this.

However, there are a few things that I am already good at, or at least OK. Reading your article made me realize that me being overwhelmed was because I was trying to learn it all at the same time. So I have stopped trying to “learn it all” at the same time, and I created a learning plan. At the top of the plan are the areas I am already OK or good at. I am focused on those areas because our business can launch with me knowing those areas, and expand my knowledge and our business as I go along.

Yesterday I created the learning plan and begun working it. This morning as I continued learning, my stress level is gone, and I feel much more focused on what I am learning. Thank you for such a great article!