Did you recognize yourself in the last blog post? Are you willing to under perform in order to prevent judgment of your best? When you do this, all you are doing is showing how well you produce under pressure. Richard Beery, a psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, has come up with the following equation for this type of procrastinator:
Self-worth = Ability = Performance
This translates into saying, “If I perform well, that means I have a lot of ability, and so therefore I feel really good about myself.” You measure your sense of worth on how well you perform. You don’t consider if you are having a bad day, or if obstacles come up that are out of your control. Instead you make a direct connection between your level of performance and your sense of self-worth.
Sound familiar? Stay tuned for more…
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