This phrase means that having a positive attitude or confidence alone is not enough to succeed; one must also have the necessary skills and abilities to back it up. Competence is essential for achieving success, and simply having a good attitude without skills or knowledge will not be sufficient in the long run.
According to Spreitzer, a sense of meaning in work is not a defining element of psychological empowerment. Instead, the defining elements include a sense of competence, self-determination, impact, and meaning.
Chomsky separates competence and performance; he describes 'competence' as an idealized capacity that is located as a psychological or mental property or function and 'performance' as the production of actual utterances. In short, competence involves "knowing" the language and performance involves "doing" something with the language. The difficulty with this construct is that it is very difficult to assess competence without assessing performance. Inforfation Accessed from: http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.Bilash/best%20of%20bilash/competencyperformance.html
The word originates from the Medieval Latin word aptitudowhich actually means "aptitude".
You have an attitude that will not make others like you.
Here are some sentences.Your attitude leaves much to be desired.She has a good attitude.
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It means not stupid. - It means to have competence - ability in a skill or task
Linguistic competence.
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There is no difference at all in meaning, however "competence" is the most often used, as many are unfamiliar with the noun "competency" and sometimes consider it an incorrect form of the word.
Substitute for an actor.
someting to whine about
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it talks about our attitude
attitute
Open mindness
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