The fear of not being good enough
The fear of not being good enough is fairly pervasive in most first-world workplaces, I’d argue. (Hell, it’s fairly pervasive in life as a whole.) There is legitimate research that most people’s №1 fear about work is being seen as incompetent. That’s essentially the same thing as a fear of not being good enough.
This isn’t necessarily surprising to me — and probably shouldn’t be to you either. We have a…