Circle of Competence

Inside your circle of competence —> what you’re good at, where your knowledge lies —> leads to better decisions and fewer mistakes

At the edge of your circle of competence —> identify areas you need to improve on, clearer understanding of what you don’t know, aware of those (people and software) who have the knowledge that you’re missing

Knowing where your boundary is —> requires self-reflection, humility and extreme intellectual honesty

Don’t confuse passing familiarity with true understanding

Think of your circle in terms of colour, size and shape —> one is nothing without the other:

• The deeper the colour, the stronger the ‘knowledge’

• The bigger the circle, the more you ‘know’

• A circle doesn’t need to be perfectly symmetrical