COMPETENCE

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1. the competence of a person is in direct ratio to his degree of consciousness and their awareness (now I'm talking about the eyeball) of their environment. Competence is directly proportional to those two things. So don't expect a half knocked out druggy to be very competent. He won't be. Now similarly the insane are all degrees of competence. There have been some of the most brilliant geniuses who are utterly screamingly insane. There have been some of the dumbest boobs that were utterly screamingly insane. It has nothing to do with it. It's not on the same scale. We're dealing now with the scale of aberration as the scale of competence. The number of out-points the guy is carrying around in his skull is how aberrated he is. It has very little to do with his sanity, it has everything to do with his competence. How conscious he is and his width of awareness (can he see?) is what demonstrates his competence. (ESTO 10, 7203CO5 SO 11)

2. competence on any given subject is what a person is not unconscious on, and those things he can't see he is unconscious on and that determines his competence. (ESTO 10, 7203CO5 SO 11)

3. when a person is competent, nothing can shake his pride. The world can yell, but it doesn't shake him. Competence is not a question of one being being more clever than another. It is one being being more able to do what he is doing than another is. (HCO PL 3 Apr 72)

4. being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself. When you see things broken down around the mechanic who is responsible for them, he is plainly exhibiting his incompetencewhich means his inability to control those things in his environment and adjust the environment for which he is responsible -motors. When you see the mate's boats broken up you know he does not have control of his environment. Know-how, attention, and the desire to be effective are all part of the ability to control the environment. (HCO PL 30 Dec 70)

5. the estimation of effort. (2ACC 31B, 5312C22)