Accidentally Incompetent: Cycling Around the Four Stages of Competence

Jason Knight
5 min readNov 8, 2023

I’ve recently been reading about the four stages of competence, reflecting on how you move between one and the other, and thinking about how this process is not linear at all, but rather a circular path. To celebrate my new (off-brand) Apple pencil, I started doodling.

The Cycle of Competence

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Jason Knight

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