There is a passage from Jung’s “Modern man in search of a soul” that I think about fairly often, on this point (p.229 in my edition)
I know that the idea of proficiency is especially repugnant to the pseudo-moderns, for it reminds them unpleasantly of their deceits. This, however, cannot prevent us from taking it as our criterion of the modern man. We are even forced to do so, for unless he is proficient, the man who claims to be modern is nothing but an unscrupulous gambler. He must be proficient in the highest degree, for unless he can atone by creative ability for his break with tradition, he is merely disloyal to the past
There is a passage from Jung’s “Modern man in search of a soul” that I think about fairly often, on this point (p.229 in my edition)