I can and often am competent, but I phase shift in and out. When I do my meditations, that is a completely different world, with different rules. And it is a better world, too.
So many people are driven to work, to consume, to win. But where is life in all that? At the end of a lifetime, living in a large home, emotionally alienated at least from your true self, what is left? I see little.
There has to be a happy medium.
When I look at history, I see that insanity expands, for the simple reason that unhappy people are forced to work, forced into conflict, and the more unhappy they are, the better they get at it. Most large empires are built this way. Most large fortunes are built this way.
Small wonder that Chuang Tzu extolled the useless and thus invisible.