ARE YOU GUILTY OF THIS EGREGIOUS CRIME?
Okay that was a bit dramatic. Downplaying your experience, preparation and hard work might not, at time of writing, be an indictable offence. But it should be.
- It betrays the effort underpinning your accomplishments.
- It misleads those who might be inspired by you.
- It sells you short.
Tall Poppy Syndrome has a lot to answer for.
It’s particularly bad in Australia and New Zealand, where being “a natural” is high praise.
Yeah nah.
Nearly all achievement comes from practice and hard work, and to play that down is unhelpful.
Col rounds out this Friday Fink Tank reflecting that North Americans are less guilty of this than antipodeans. Which might explain why the auto-generated captions called it Total Puppy Syndrome.
