[quote=walterwhite]i think we are encouraged to suffer from this. i read an article in a recent trade journal about “confidence” in my line of work. a successful person said when she was young, she was asked by senior partner if she knew how to do a particular task ona tight timeline. she said ‘sure!” she gave this as an example of the correct way to be at work to move ahead. i understand a can-do attitude, and “fake it till you make it”, the problem is, dude, you may be the guy who leaks a billion barrels int he gulf or whatever. on the other hand, president is so complex a task no one is really competent, i suppose.[/quote]

agree about president. i look at phrases such as; “hard worker”, claims of possessing ability to multi task or thinking outside of box etc., as general offspring of a can-do attitude. such encouragement for developing young people is to subscribe to attribution bias, e.g., I’m successful because of hard work.