Executive Stress
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Printer-friendly version| Title | Executive Stress |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 1975 |
| Authors | Levinson, H. |
| Publisher | Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated |
| Keywords | career, conformity, self-doubt |
| Notes | self-doubt"The cost of self-doubt in dollars and frustration is beyond computation. Despite their capacity for zest and spirit, uncounted numbers of people endure what they experience as dead-end traps with quiet desperation. They want to do something bigger and more exciting than what they are doing, but they are either afraid or don't know where to begin. They are trapped by barriers they cannot see and hindered by psychological glasses that distort their perception of themselves. The tragedy of having given up on themselves is that so many could use what seem to be barriers as stepping stones to gratification. Too much self-doubt blinds us to the opportunities around us. Without knowing where to start pulling oneself out of the psychological trap, even the person with considerable self-confidence has difficulty doing so." (p. 74) career"The faster one is going to drive, the more one had better be certain both about the vehicle and the road. That way one has a better chance of getting where one is going. So it is with a career." (p. 104) conformity"Where conformity is the first rule of survival, initiative is likely to be found only in dictionaries on the secretaries' desks." (p. 195) |
| URL | http://books.google.com/books?id=EdmEAQAACAAJ |