The competence roller coaster

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Every so often I start to think that maybe I’m actually pretty good at a thing, like teaching or coaching or writing books. I feel competent. And then, I don’t. It’s not because I have imposter syndrome, or the thing got harder, or I don’t know how to acknowledge my skills. Maybe it’s that competence is a non-linear j…