A competency trap is that false belief that your past principles, ideas, mental models will continually lead to future successes and better judgement.
— linked Medium article below
You can be so good at what you do that you can be blinded by your past successes. Doing something well can often get you stuck in a loop. Instead of growing and evolving, the competency trap can stand in the way of your incremental progress.
— linked Medium article below
In a constantly changing and ambiguous world, previous successes can stand in the way of new opportunities. To thrive in the future, revisit your past performances, adopt a flexible mindset and disrupt yourself — compete with yourself. Your goal should be to make yourself redundant.
— linked Medium article below