| Peaked? |
I don't mean to imply I have peaked yet myself, but this is something I wonder about sometimes. How do you tell when you're at the peak of your talent and shouldn't go for that next interesting job / project / promotion?
Presumably it happens to everyone at some stage that they end up at the edge of their competence. Ignoring additional training as an option for a second, surely it's a good measure of one's personality to therefore stop at that point. How do you know when you reach that point though?
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Little Headed Simon
It's an interesting question. But I'd imagine it comes down to the individual, and how good they are at both judging their own abilities and taking/recognising feedback from those they work with.
I think that for most people, they would realise that they were struggling with a new job, and so work harder, get more training or move somewhere else. I'd imagine in most cases it wouldn't be so much a "rise to the level of your incompetence" as a slowing down of their rate of advancement (as it takes longer for them to pick up the skills they need to succeed).
Surely it's only when you buy into your own hype of "yeah, I can do this!" that you stop bothering to learn new stuff.