Are you competent?

Does being competent mean, how effectively you manage your incompetence?

I know this question sounds sarcastic, but it is not. By virtue of being competent in a field you have come from a place where you were incompetent to begin with. It is up to the individual how s/he has ‘managed’ that incompetence, which makes them competent or leaves them woefully incompetent. Building competence out of incompetence is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. Either you fall prey to it or you work towards transcending it by building competence.

I'll end this post with a quote by 19th century English Journalist, Walter Bagehot, "The Greatest pleasure in life...is doing what people say you cannot do".