@david_chisnall I think in our pre-teen childhood development we see the two as the same, competence and confidence, and then in our teens we discover the shortcuts, and feign the confidence. What baffles me is how rewarding confidence over competence remains, all throughout mid adulthood. Is it a form of collective arrested development where lots of us live off the confident persona? Then in later adulthood comes enlightenment and we finally reward ourselves and start to call the BS