They might not feel the sense of competence if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

当他们拿其他名人或者优秀的网友与自己比较时，他们可能会感受到自己的无能。

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For many people, the peak earning years of midlife offer a sense of competence and mastery.

对多数人来说，中年赚钱的顶峰时期给人一种能力和有技术的感觉。

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To many of our customers, to own this bag is to achieve a sense of competence like nothing else.

我们的许多客户认为，拥有这款包是为了获取一种无可比拟的满足感。

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So clear sense of your core competence and direction, intelligence and understanding not only with your own people are doing but what's going on in academia and in startups, and then the willingness to take some risk that would be what I'd say.

清楚的了解你的核心竞争力和方向，才干，并了解你的伙伴在做什么,以及学术环境和创业环境的发展，然后要有冒险的动力,这就是我要讲的。

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Most studies instead point to the importance of more general traits, like autonomy or a sense of competence (see, for example, the voluminous research literature on Self-Determination Theory for more on such findings).

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Going forward, the only way Romney defeat the Gingrich-led insurgent challenge stripped him of his claim to inevitability once and for all is if he can stay on the offense, descend from his Ivory Tower and generate a sense of authenticity and competence with the electorate that he has been unable to achieve to date.

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His book grows out of a sense that agency and competence are central to personal motivation at work.

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