The Cost of Competence Formation · Vocation The Cost of Competence Light is rarely resented for being false. It is resented for being bright. What do you owe a room that would rather stay dim? The Flourishing Journal Walk into a dark room and turn on the light, and no one thanks you first. They wince. Hands go up to shield eyes that had made their peace with the gloom. For a moment you are not the person who helped them see but the person who hurt them. This is the strange social physics of competence. We are told it is the thing that earns belonging, the currency that buys…