the.com/competence
the rare superpower of being good at something while everyone else is loudly winging it
means the ability to do something successfully, properly, or to a required standard.
from From Latin competere, 'to be fit or suitable, to coincide' — built from com- ('together') and petere ('to seek, aim for, strive'). The original image is of things converging and meeting at the right point. The same root gives us 'compete,' which is a nice irony: competence and competition are siblings, both born from the idea of striving toward a mark — one quietly hitting it, the other racing others to it.
- unconscious skill
- true mastery feels effortless and looks boring from outside
- Dunning-Kruger
- the incompetent overrate themselves; experts doubt constantly
- four stages
- learning climbs from unconscious incompetence to unconscious mastery
- quietly underrated
- reliability rarely gets the applause that charisma steals
- legal sense
- courts assess competence before anyone stands trial
spacex falcon 9 landing — rocket successfully lands on drone ship after delivering payload to orbit, demonstrated 140+ times since 2015
federer vs nadal wimbledon — roger federer won 8 titles at wimbledon, beating nadal 4 times in finals through mastery of grass court play
apollo 11 moon landing — nasa placed 2 humans on moon and returned safely july 20 1969 after calculating trajectories and executing 400000+ component assembly