The Importance of Moving the Bar

If the moving of this bar does not have an arc associated with it, you're probably not moving the bar correctly. It occurs to me that one way to reduce a character's competency is to literally make them too competent for their own good. And having a hyper-competent character, when you're matching that with these other sort of bars we haven't even talked about, you can have a character who's proactive, competent, and sympathetic because you're making it all funny.