Four Stages of Learning as Applied to Swimming Our goal always here at Carla Swim is to create a lifelong love of the water! And to be able to be safe and have fun, we need to be able to make it so swimming becomes "second nature". In any learning, there are four stages: Unconscious Incompetence - this is where you are not aware of what you don't know. It could also be called beginner's mind. Relative to swimming, this is even before fear or any experience. For our kids t