The Competence Trap: When Being Capable Starts Costing You
The ProAttitudes Brief · October 2026 The Competence Trap: When Being Capable Starts Costing You By Evan Mestman · Executive
The ProAttitudes Brief · October 2026 The Competence Trap: When Being Capable Starts Costing You By Evan Mestman · Executive

You have good people, but projects still stall, decisions drag and difficult conversations get delayed. Sometimes the hidden resistance isn’t a motivation problem. It’s the inner critic. Here’s how to recognize it and help yourself and your team recover faster.

Have you ever lay awake at night, unable to get back to sleep, hearing a voice that is relentlessly critical

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Your kryptonite, and mine, is being unmotivated. Being unmotivated is something that will literally stopyou in your track and crush

You wake up every day and can’t figure out how the time goes by and you get nothing done. The

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