Yes, and at that moment they were incompetent.
It’s a very negative word, but it solely describes ‘lack of competence’.
And competence is the word describing ‘the ability to do something successfully and/or efficiently’.
There has to be a realization that at any time in your life you’re vastly more incompetent then competent as you don’t know everything in the world and your physical ability is not perfect, you know overwhelmingly less then you know and you cannot physically do a overwhelming amount of things compare to those you can do.
Every even so little failure in life is a situation of momentary incompetence. Be it a lapse in memory, a failure of your bodily capability… all of it.
Every single one.
The word is perceived extremely negative since nobody wants to be incompetent… but we all are, always, at every day. Our task is solely to increase the range of competence to reduce the amount of incompetence we have.
Universally? Obviously no. Nigh nobody is (albeit with some I would argue it’s borderline a yes
). But momentarily? Obviously so!
Yep, fell flat, entirely
And yes, many bad decisions, daily ones, we all have em. Just gonna need to reduce them. Incompetence is not bad actually, erring is human and without failing you cannot learn as well. Doesn’t mean you should seek failure… but you gotta accept it’s a inherent part of life.
Intentions are separate from competence as well.
You can praise the intention and a person can still be utterly incompetent at their task.
And sometimes you got people which have awful intentions but are supremely competent at what they do.
Yep, hence you failed.
Is that competence?
I get this argument a lot by now and I actually quite enjoy it. The primary thing to think about always: What exactly defines competence? Which timeframe are we talking about? Which detail of process? Is there any definition basis on any of those adjustable aspects for the terminology?
Well… then my question is: If you knew everything needed for it, at full, 100%, perfect knowledge… why didn’t come anything from it?
It means you had less competence in the area of it then was needed to fulfill the respective tasks. Hence for that specific task… you were incompetent. But your competence sufficed for the final exam to pass.
Two situations… each has their own bar where you’re competent or incompetent.
Same with helping people. If you know how a person can be brought to do specific things which will cause them to be helped, have the full knowledge and physical ability to do it at any second (impossible, there’s always unknown parts, and hence aspects of incompetence at total) then it would succeed with a 100% success guarantee.
But since we’re neither omnisicient nor omnipotent we cannot do that.
Yeah, but that’s a combination of competence in one area (convincing people) versus incomptence in the actual deed you’re supposed to do.
We can also define the competence in relation to the competence of the recruiter. Your argumentation skills were higher then the knowledge about you from the recruiter, hence your task suceeded (competence) versus his task failing (incomptence).
Has nothing to do with competence though? It’s being privileged simply, hence having a different starting point compared to another individual.
Competence is solely the personal actionable results of any situation.
Yep, virtue signaling, the other nice buzzword I used.
Adhering to morals, not adhering to merit.
Colors are very tightly defined at the exact spectrum. Once again… competence of perception here.
If there’s a gray zone you can test the wavelength precisely, hence with 2 different opinions one will be right and one wrong… or one at least closer to the truth then the other, unless they’re perfectly deviating from the actual outcome to both ends.
Also true!
As mentioned… I argue partially for the training of… well… learning to argue better. So it’s helpful for me… but not for others here plainly spoken 
Sadly so… it often depends if you use a strict precise methodology or use the social normative way, yeah. You’re absolutely right with that.
I try to make clear since a while that I try to use the precise one which is neutral rather then the socialy accepted. How much better or worse that is… very much depends. I think it’s a bit needed to move towards more defined usage as otherwise words loose a lot of meaning and we know less what someone wants to convey then we could otherwise.