Introduction You can work twelve hours a day in a new job, complete every assigned task, attend every meeting, and still spend your first 90 days moving in the wrong direction. Why? Because being busy does not necessarily mean making progress. Imagine a ship with a hardworking crew. The engines are running, everyone has a responsibility, and the entire team is putting in maximum effort. But there is one problem: nobody knows the destination. Will working harder help the ship reach the right place? Not without a clear direction. The same principle applies to your career. John C. Maxwell explains this through the Law of Navigation, which emphasizes that effective leaders plan their journey before expecting others to follow. Understand Your Destination Before Starting One of the biggest mistakes professionals make when joining a new company is immediately focusing on completing tasks without understanding the bigger picture. You answer emails, attend meetings, solve daily probl...
Introduction Social anxiety is a disorder in which you suffer from a long-term fear of social situations. It is more than just shyness rather it's a fear that affects our everyday activities, relationships, and self-confidence. It does not go away. The spotlight effect is even worse for people with social anxiety as has a huge impact on your ability to work. People feel uncomfortable around others and feel embarrassed all the time. Spotlight effect and its examples The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias in which a person believes that the world is always watching him/her. In it, a person overestimates how much people notice him and thinks that people are paying much more attention to him than they actually do. In the spotlight effect, you feel like every move that you are making is under the microscope of the public eye that highlights your successes and failures, both. Very common examples of the spotlight effect include various situations like when you realize that your zipper ...