The document discusses the four stages of habit formation: the ignorance stage where one is unaware of what they don't know; the awareness stage where one realizes what they don't know; the desire stage where one is consciously working on a skill; and the conditioning stage where the skill has become unconscious competence through repetition.

2. How Habits
Are Formed

3. Ignorance Stage:
Unconscious Incompetence
"I don’t know
that
I don't know"
How Habits Are Formed

4. Awareness Stage:
Conscious Incompetence
"I now know
that
I don't know"
How Habits Are Formed

6. Desire Stage:
Conscious Competence
"I am
working
on it"
How Habits Are Formed

7. Conditioning Stage:
Unconscious Competence
"I can do it
in my
sleep"
How Habits Are Formed