January 13, 2014

Fear-driven professional development

Knowledge workers are susceptible to nonclinical impostor syndrome, a lurking fear that they will be found out as a fraud and haven't earned what they have. Those feelings are heightened with streaming access to the best people in the field. It is easy to find someone who is more clever, more accomplished, a little more everything.

In turn, driving a frantic obsession with self improvement at work (with residual guilt for not doing enough). Instead ask, "How much better can I be in order to give back to the world?" - love-driven professional development.

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