The steps
- Be a perfectionist
- Run before you can walk
- Reject the value of your specialization
- Be uncompromising in your decision making process
- Categorize everything into right vs wrong
- Become discouraged by the successes of others
- Never allow yourself to make mistakes
- Fail to acknowledge the growth of others around you
- Compete more than collaborate
- Deem your weaknesses personal shortcomings
- Avoid learning things you feel you should know by now since learning now
would imply you haven't known this whole time
- Try to use your tools perfectly the first time you use them
- Stop believing in your abilities
- Don't believe the people who believe in your abilities
- Define yourself by the you work you do
- Fail to realize just how much you actually know
- Become overwhelmed with how much left there is to learn
- Forget it's okay to not know everything
- Stop asking for help
- Stop sharing your work
Date published - June 06, 2015