EXPLORE
The five Features of Expertise
We understand any expert action by recognizing its four features top down, beginning with the most general:
its domain, of work or life.
the goal being addressed,
the phase of the goal being used, and
the mode for a phase of a particular goal
the step of transformative learning being taken to get to the next mode.
We develop expertise from bottom up, taking the steps of transformative learning to acquire a new lmode that makes it easier to reach one of the goals of our domain.
We explain these in the sections below with green, blue, navy, and white backgrounds.
After you read through the features below, explore the travel domain and after that, try Sustain.
DEEP Steps of Transformative Learning:
Discern, Examine, Enable, Perform
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Recognizing a dilemma that requires a change is the first of four steps of needed to learn a new mode for any goal.
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Reflect on a dilemma, examine your role in it, discuss it with a friend, and identify a new mode.
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Plan, rehearse, and get feedback from a person who has more experience with a new mode, can break down and model performance,, uses guiding questions, and provides ways to evaluate results.
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The last step of achieving a new mode of practice for a goal is when you perform it regularly.
Modes:
See Modes versus Memes
A mode is a particular phase of a particular goal. It is the fundamental unit of expertise, grows at a characteristic rate, satisfies the goal differently from any other modes of the goal, and is acquired through transformative learning. In the travel domain, the second mode of the planning goal is “Look for a tourguide to teach about the area.” The second mode for the language goal is “Native language phrases.” Both are in the same exploratory phase, but since they have different goals, they are different modes.
Though each mode occurs at only one phase, it differs from its phase by being unique to a particular goal. For example, though visiting the developed Orient and conversing in the native language are both modes of the sustaining phase, travelers require much less time to initiate a visit than to learn how to converse in the native language.
Phases
Modes, Phases, and Memes
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Step out of your comfort zone with a domain goal you have not tried before. This phase is very easy to learn and takes little involvement to do so.
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Get more involved with a domain goal by trying quickly learned practices. Hanging on to any of these simple modes too long eventually creates problems.
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Use a rich variety of practices that you have learned over the years to perform and adjust automatically. These are the practices that work over long periods of time.
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Teach others to use the rich variety of practices that you learned over the years.
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Know a goal so well that you can make discoveries or innovations that other people use.
Goals
Why nine goals?
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Choose what to sense: to look at, listen to, touch, smell, or taste.
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Day dream by choosing memories of prior experiences or imaginations of possibilities.
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Speak to or comprehend others using shared symbols.
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Modify practices to a new situation in order to accomplish satisfying outcomes.
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Infer and predict the beliefs, thoughts, inentions, and emotions of others.
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Accomplish satisfying outcomes that cannot be achieved without another person.
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Select practices that are widely observed and accepted in a culture and sometimes codified in laws or well-known maxims.
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Focus on, remember, and sequence practices in order to achieve a satisfying outcome.. Yhis is often done while interacting with others.
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Use language or technology to organize and preserve experience for later use by oneself or other people.