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Overconfidence is the second tendency that some people have in high-pressure scenarios. Having a sense of confidence about yourself and your abilities is important. However, overconfidence can lead to failure.
The Negative Side of Over-confidence
Overconfidence leads people to underestimate challenges and fail to ask whether their skills, experience, and knowledge are sufficient to accomplish the task at hand. An example of an overconfident response is refusing to consider alternatives to opinions and decisions.
Because overconfident employees may act brashly, the consequences of their actions can be more damaging than those caused by overthinking. This is because their mistakes tend to be more elaborate, and so require far more time and effort to resolve.
Arrogance, if left unchecked, can lead to complacency. For example, you may become convinced that you no longer make trivial mistakes. Such a mindset makes it easy for you to miss simple errors in your work. Overconfidence can prevent you from seeking the help you may require to meet a given objective or achieve a set standard. This can lead you to repeat mistakes or get behind in your work.
Results of Over-confidence
Just as over-thinking results in too much attention being paid to the possibility of failure, overconfidence often leads to too much focus on the expected rewards of success. In both cases, your focus is drawn away from the task at hand, and directed to the outcome of the situation instead.
Take Dwayne, for example. He was recently promoted to the position of editor at a publishing house. Given an important manuscript as his first task, he began to go through it, not only making corrections, but also rewriting large sections that he felt were poorly researched and argued. Dwayne thought he'd been given too easy a task to begin with, but that he'd improved it with his superior understanding of the subject matter.
While working on the manuscript, Dwayne was offered help by experienced editors who remembered being bogged down by their first projects. But Dwayne refused assistance. He was so convinced of his skills that Dwayne felt he didn't need help to impress his superiors.
However, when the manuscript's author read Dwayne's changes, he was offended. Dwayne hadn't realized that the author was an expert in the field and that his own grasp of the material was elementary in contrast to the author. He was so focused on his own ability and ambition to impress that he didn't bother to check who the author was. (...)
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Performance Under Pressure: Taking Action - Overcoming Over-analysis
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Over-thinking and Over-confidence
Some people excel under pressure, while others struggle. In high-pressure situations, some people tend to adopt one of two kinds of behavior: over-thinking or over-confidence. People who succeed when under pressure are often better at avoiding, or balancing, these tendencies.
To perform well under pressure you need to think sufficiently about what needs to be done, but not fall into the trap of overthinking your performance. Similarly, you should have confidence in your abilities and knowledge, but not to the point where your arrogance impairs your judgment.
Over-thinking Under Pressure
Overthinking can lead to a sense of paralysis — of becoming so concerned about the details and outcomes of the situation that you don't know where to begin.
In high-pressure situations, some people tend to question their ability to perform. Others may try to control every variable. In either case, the focus is shifted away from what needs to be accomplished and toward the performance. This focus on performance can cause people to perform below their ability.
For example, Lenore works for an investment firm and has recently been granted control of her first account. Her first assignment in this new role is to do a risk analysis of an important client's portfolio.
Wanting to impress her boss, Lenore researches every conceivable variable of the client's portfolio. She's pleased to find a large volume of information, which she's sure will improve the accuracy of her report. Eventually, however, it begins to seem that each additional source she consults makes her less certain of her final analysis.
Finally, Lenore is surrounded by so much information that she becomes totally paralyzed and isn't able to finish the report on time.
Avoiding Overthinking
To avoid overthinking in high-pressure situations, you can use several strategies. First, stay focused on what you're trying to achieve. Second, try to just do what you do. Third, strive for progress instead of perfection. Fourth, set a time limit for your task and stick to it. And fifth, try to break the task down into smaller, simpler tasks.
Stay Focused
Staying focused on what you're trying to achieve, rather than on the details of your performance, is an effective way to avoid overthinking.
For example, Clarice needs to give a presentation. She's anxious because it will influence an important decision. Though she has given many presentations in the past, she can't help but worry that she might fail. (...)
Full Course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-taking-action/?couponCode=PROMONOW
Over-thinking and Over-confidence
Some people excel under pressure, while others struggle. In high-pressure situations, some people tend to adopt one of two kinds of behavior: over-thinking or over-confidence. People who succeed when under pressure are often better at avoiding, or balancing, these tendencies.
To perform well under pressure you need to think sufficiently about what needs to be done, but not fall into the trap of overthinking your performance. Similarly, you should have confidence in your abilities and knowledge, but not to the point where your arrogance impairs your judgment.
Over-thinking Under Pressure
Overthinking can lead to a sense of paralysis — of becoming so concerned about the details and outcomes of the situation that you don't know where to begin.
In high-pressure situations, some people tend to question their ability to perform. Others may try to control every variable. In either case, the focus is shifted away from what needs to be accomplished and toward the performance. This focus on performance can cause people to perform below their ability.
For example, Lenore works for an investment firm and has recently been granted control of her first account. Her first assignment in this new role is to do a risk analysis of an important client's portfolio.
Wanting to impress her boss, Lenore researches every conceivable variable of the client's portfolio. She's pleased to find a large volume of information, which she's sure will improve the accuracy of her report. Eventually, however, it begins to seem that each additional source she consults makes her less certain of her final analysis.
Finally, Lenore is surrounded by so much information that she becomes totally paralyzed and isn't able to finish the report on time.
Avoiding Overthinking
To avoid overthinking in high-pressure situations, you can use several strategies. First, stay focused on what you're trying to achieve. Second, try to just do what you do. Third, strive for progress instead of perfection. Fourth, set a time limit for your task and stick to it. And fifth, try to break the task down into smaller, simpler tasks.
Stay Focused
Staying focused on what you're trying to achieve, rather than on the details of your performance, is an effective way to avoid overthinking.
For example, Clarice needs to give a presentation. She's anxious because it will influence an important decision. Though she has given many presentations in the past, she can't help but worry that she might fail. (...)
Full Course: https://www.udemy.com/performance-under-pressure-taking-action/?couponCode=PROMONOW
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