On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:39:53AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > [...] > > The Dreyfus Model of Sill Acquisition [1], describes skills acquisition > > as passing through five levels: novice, advanced beginner, competent, > > proficient, and expert. > [...] > > I also > > taught nursing where we take novices and turn them into advanced > > beginners over the course of 4 years. > > Thanks, Doug! That was most enlightening. Five stages, four > years per stage. I'd often wondered why I'd displayed no sign of > competence in all my years with Debian, but I see that it won't > be long now! Mmm. Or will it?
Oh is better than that. In nursing, Copetency takes between 3 and 5 years in one job (not on a float pool all over the hospital). Proficiency takes a bit longer. True experts are awesome to behold. You seem to be at least proficient at sending email: you snip and bottom post and get to the point. Give yourself a break. In fact, that's the take-home message of the whole Dreyfus model. Give yourself and everyone else a break. Everyone learns at their own pace and is equally deserving of respect and individualized attention. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
