Learn what other people know that you don’t.

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Use this page to always remember how every expert action…

  1. exists in a domain,

  2. serves a goal

  3. in a phase  of development

  4. that takes four steps to change

  5. When you know these, go to Help to Explore

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Mouse Aids:

Comprehension Aids:

  • On this site, we use a travel analogy. Think of gaining expertise like going on a trip. Each destination is not a straight path — more like a winding journey with a few different phasses along the way.

  • Our maps show how to achieve each goal.

  • Whether you're growing in your career or your personal life, the journey to each goal will include five phases.

Nine Goals for any domain divided into 4 categories

Focus Goals

1. Reflect Assess one’s own expertise

2. Attention Learn what to look for in areas you don’t know

Process Goals

3. Language Communicate better with experts

4. Skill Identify common procedures of experts

5. Reason Assess what others do

Interact Goals

6. Collaborate Solve problems more effectively with others.

7. Comply Follow the norms and standards of a domain

Integrate Goals

8. Plan Design an educational program for oneself or others

9. Report Preserve events related to an area of expertise

36 Domains of Expertise

For Work professions or trades and for social or personal Life each domain fulfills…

a short-term, medium-term, or long-term need for

survival, well-being, or signicance

Five Phases of Goals

Four Steps

Discern a need for change.

Examine a current phase by reflecting, assessing your own role, discussing with a friend, and choosing a new milestone.

Enable a new phase through planning, practice, and getting feedback from a mentor.

Perform the new phase.