Competency, Context, and Personality

The book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear outlines handy ways to develop good habits, and break bad habits.  Towards the back of the book are some gems about competency, context, and personality. Competence is highly dependent on the context (i.e. topic or circumstance or situation). This can be extended to dependence on personality too, by definition of who you are and what you like.  Boiling water softens a potato, but hardens an egg. So the effects of boiling water are different depending on the circumstance. Similarly, defining your competence is entirely dependent on the depth of the topic being queried.