Underachievement Caused By Arbitrary Expectations

Underachievement can be impacted or caused by perceiving our “work” to be a waste of time or arbitrary. . 

 

In Better Than Before, author Grethin Rubin highlights 4 ways we “tend” to respond to expectations:

 

UPHOLDERS meet the expectations of others and themselves. 

OBLIGERS meet the expectations of others yet may flake on their own. 

QUESTIONERS meet their own expectations but resist the arbitrary expectations of others. 

REBELS resist all expectations. 

 

I invite you to consider these questions:

 

• When are you being asked to do “arbitrary” work or tasks?
• When do you notice yourself questioning or rebelling?
• When do you notice thinking that what you’re doing or learning is irrelevant to your life?

 

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