If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

Companies recruit overachievers, then exploit their insecurity.

✒ A common trait for the up-and-coming professionals in law, finance, consulting and the like may be “personal insecurity”, due to the inherent intangibility of knowledge work and the deliberate hiring of “insecure overachievers” by elite professional organisations.

According to the article, “insecure overachievers are exceptionally capable and fiercely ambitious, yet driven by a profound sense of their own inadequacy. This typically stems from childhood, and may result from various factors, such as experience of financial or physical deprivation, or a belief that their parents’ love was contingent upon their behaving and performing well.”