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I don't know any high performers who think this way. Do you? I find usually people use "i'm behind" as an excuse not to even try because they can never be as g
by readme 5y ago
I don't know any high performers who think this way. Do you?
I find usually people use "i'm behind" as an excuse not to even try because they can never be as good as so and so.
The high performers are usually the people who think it's never too late to learn something new, in my experience.
- themacguffinman 5y agoThe article author explicitly notes that "The feeling of being behind is one of the most destructive feelings to harbor and yet almost every high performer I have ever met suffers from it." If you google "celebrity imposter syndrome" you'll see endless pages of articles of varying quality noting that many successful businessmen/leaders/artists have imposter syndrome, and they're evidently high performing.
- mattnewton 5y agoI do know people who have expressed it to me often, and the author of the article goes as far to say "yet almost every high performer I have ever met suffers from it." I agree that high performers must feel that they are capable to make performing feel tractable - I think that's necessary. But also they have to be motivated to do so.
- sharms 5y agoHigh performers are often aware of the large space of potential subjects they lack expertise on (hence feeling behind). Low performers are often not aware, and would self-evaluate as high performers due to not being aware of their own knowledge gaps, and how far behind they are. There is an excellent graph to illustrate this: https://understandinginnovation.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/dunning-kruger-0011.jpg https://understandinginnovation.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/...
- readme 5y agofeeling like you're "behind" and acknowledging the amount you don't know about a field are two different things one is a social comparison, the other is an epistemological observation