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From Hire to Retire 2: Daring to Fail or Why Competence Can Be a Curse

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How Competency Can Be a Curse?

Ei want to talk about how failure plays out in your writing. Both free food for millionaires and pichinco have opening lines that i think reveal a lot of deep thinking about failure. What do you mean by competence can be a curse? Oh, that's a thesis statement, freefoot, famillionairs. And i was really trying to say that sometimes when you're good enough at most things, you don't know what you're supposed to do. But then if you can lean into your competence, very often you won't experience enough failure. In a way, i can also make you fairly arrogant, thinking that you're somehow impervious to the slights of the world

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