It isn’t about feeling bad about them, it’s about bad feelings about yourself. Low self-esteem, learned helplessness, expectations of bad outcomes, identification of bad traits in ourselves we know shouldn’t come out at work, amongst others. This isn’t even about the often referred to “Imposter Syndrome”, though for some this is the truth, it’s all about those expectations on ourselves and lack of appropriate communication by bosses and managers.
This is leadership at its most basic.
Ball up all the little insecurities we have at work and merge them with poor communication from people in authority, and you have an anxious and debilitating soup. Sprinkle in financial issues and general uncertainty about life and I think most of us just expect things to go wrong.
So yes, take what you can from an employer. Also try and take time where you can to give back to yourself.
It isn’t about feeling bad about them, it’s about bad feelings about yourself. Low self-esteem, learned helplessness, expectations of bad outcomes, identification of bad traits in ourselves we know shouldn’t come out at work, amongst others. This isn’t even about the often referred to “Imposter Syndrome”, though for some this is the truth, it’s all about those expectations on ourselves and lack of appropriate communication by bosses and managers.
This is leadership at its most basic.
Ball up all the little insecurities we have at work and merge them with poor communication from people in authority, and you have an anxious and debilitating soup. Sprinkle in financial issues and general uncertainty about life and I think most of us just expect things to go wrong.
So yes, take what you can from an employer. Also try and take time where you can to give back to yourself.