Is Your Social & Professional Standing Ruining Your Career?

The term ‘status’ refers to our relative social, professional, or other standing within the groups and/or ‘tribes’ we participate in. 

This can refer to anything, such as the book club we attend, our of circle friends from Uni days, family, other parents, gym buddies, work colleagues, academic peers and so on. We may hold a higher position of status in one group and lower in another.

Our status indicates our abilities, skills and efforts invested in a certain area and is not something to be judged, criticised or bragged about, but rather to be observed and learned from. 

For example, if I’m the weak link in the orchestra and I know I’m letting others down, my choice is to practice harder or leave. But I do so realising that being a bad flute player in my spare time doesn’t bleed into other areas of my life or sap my high-status confidence at work, where I’m brilliant at closing the deals.

Once a certain status has been acquired, external reinforcement in the form of others’ expectations tend to further enhance this belief about self. Try to be aware of your status as it really is – and from there make a calm decision about whether it is supporting or derailing you in terms of closing the gap between your ‘real’ and ‘ideal’ self – and then just act accordingly.

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