Confident At Work

105. How To Stop Using Your Analytical Skills Against Yourself


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This week we're exploring the hidden dangers of turning your analytical skills inward.

As professionals, you might pride yourself on your sharp analytical and critical thinking skills. These abilities honed through years of education and experience might make you an expert in your field, but what happens when you turn those skills on yourself?

In this episode we explore how the very skills that make us successful at work can erode our confidence when they're misapplied.

You'll meet Janet, a brilliant lawyer, who like many of us, has used her analytical prowess to excel in her career. However, she was also unknowingly using these skills to scrutinise, criticise and perfext herself, leading to self-doubt and anxiety.

Here’s a sneak peek of what we discussed:

  • Hypercritical Self-Analysis: Janet was adept at spotting flaws in contracts but applied the same hypercritical lens to her own value and contributions. This constant self-scrutiny left her feeling inadequate despite her undeniable success.
  • Endless Analysing: Janet would mentally dissect every conversation and email, a habit great for her legal work but disastrous for her personal confidence.
  • The good news? Janet learned to recognise when she was misapplying her skills and developed strategies to stop doing it! She discovered that she could still be highly analytical at work without turning those skills inward.

    Are you doing the same? Are your critical thinking skills boosting your career but undermining your self-confidence? Listen to this episode to find out.

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    Theme song by Melissa Carter @ Making Audio Magic

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