Pitfalls of White-Collar in The Business World

Kasım Çaldaştan
2 min readJan 20, 2022
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Imagine, you got good education, hardworking, eager what new learn things and you are working in the same company through long time. Some day, you come across an opportunity that could come out your comfort zone, get promition, could earn more etc. There are 2 ways to choose rather actualy you will evaulate.

Those ways are Kruger effect and Imposter syndrome. So what is those effect and syndrome, what stand for and what is the solution?

Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
A bit of knowledge can be dangerous thing many domains of our life. This situation can get us wear the fake confidence

In my language, we call it “ignorant courage”. It’s hard to the person notice this. Because this person thinks that know everything and be has perfect competence. They don’t listen nobody and don’t care other people idea about them, ignores feedback.

Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. Many question whether they’re deserving of accolades.

This people deserve success and praise but criticizes and underestimate themselves more. They are thinking that be in wrong place.

Its way to escape this both (in my opinion) is know yourself. i mean, if you know your strengths and weaknesses, it will be easier to your evaluation according to in your situation. There is no need to re-discover the Americas. All you have to do SWOT analysis.

For those who don’t know let me tell. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business.

Also you can get feedback or idea from your trust people but common vision should be scientific approach. You should be assessing that the data you collect as a scientist.

Thanks for read and enduring.

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