Principlev1
Push past initial tool competence into proficiency by
Push past initial tool competence into proficiency by deliberately practicing capabilities that would expand your effectiveness rather than repeatedly using only the subset you already know.
Why This Is a Principle
This follows from expertise requiring deliberate practice at the edge of ability (Expert performance in complex domains requires deliberate), automaticity freeing cognitive resources (Automaticity Without Conscious Control), and expertise changing perceptual chunking (Expertise Through Deliberate Practice). The principle prescribes continuing skill development beyond the competence plateau, derived from the axioms about how expertise develops and what it enables.