• Anyone when they are so good with skill A, its very easy for them to use it as their main arsenal and neglect B, C, D. then soon learnt a hard way that push their way through with A is not enough in real expert level and their B, C, D suck and they can’t tackle harder problem the same way they do

• someone so naturally creative usually don’t know how to make themselves more creative

• when you no longer need scaffold you might forget how to be the stage you are right now

  • e.g. you are very prominent professor in your field whom might forget how you graduated.

• information_asymmetry

• The Einstellung Effect: overuse known solution.

• curse of knowledge

• unconcious competence: when you no longer need scaffold and sometimes forget that beginners might need them e.g. ride a bicycle

• curse of competency: very common in high achivers

  • https://anniewright.com/the-curse-of-competency-the-downside-of-being-so-high-functioning-2/

• vid-justinsung-deep_thinkers

created on: Tue Jun 23 2026