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incompetence

fake it till you make it

one-liner

office work

work

boss

promotion

responsibility

job interview

overwork

believing in yourself

is a drive in human beings (a drive to demonstrate competence) alongside those of fear and longing.

At Yale University in the Child Study Clinic, he began to be suspicious that there were drives in human beings other than those of fear and longing which have been the assumed fundamental drives. He developed a hypothetical working assumption that there was a drive of the new life to demonstrate competence, and began working with his own child when she was two and one-half years old. He took an electric typewriter and colored the keys to correspond with the touch system. He then colored his child's fingernails to correspond with the keys each finger should operate. (buckminster 'education' pdf)

is defined against competitivity. When two animals meet before the same piece of food and only one eats, this happens because (in that specific moment) one of them was the more competent.

Let us say the same thing in another way. Some paragraphs ago, I wrote that in nature there is no competitivity. What exist is competence. As noted by Maturana, when two animals meet before the same piece of food and only one eats, this happens because in that specific moment one of them was the most competent to do so. But this does not mean that the animal that was unable to eat is doomed to be, from that moment on, forever forbidden to eat until death arrives. This does not happen in nature.' (NET Humerto Mariotti)

 always contains the seeds of incompetence.

Competence always contains the seeds of incompetence.

is, today, of less import than improvisation. Improvisation is where strength lies. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

expectation

improvisation

is sure to be exploited --- if you don't like a job, don't get good at it.

If you don't like a job, don't get good at it.

is a narrow ideal. It makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

is, today, no longer of value. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

These are the days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

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