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9 Career-Damaging Habits & Traits


  1. Impulsive Risk-Taking

  2. Fear of Failure & Anxiety

  3. Negativity

  4. Rigid Thinking

  5. Procrastination & Missing Deadlines

  6. Lack of Motivation

  7. Inability to Focus

  8. Unhealthy Lifestyle

  9. Negative Self-Talk



Are you struggling to reach your career goals? Are you falling short of success, despite your best efforts? It may be due to habits and traits related to your brain function. Daniel Amen, with over 170,000 brain scans, has identified 9 brain-related traits and habits that can hold you back from reaching your potential.

  1. Impulsive Risk-Taking: Taking risks is necessary in business, but impulsiveness without proper due diligence can lead to costly mistakes. This can be associated with low activity in the frontal lobes of the brain, which is common in people with ADD/ADHD.

  2. Fear, Anxiety, and Worries: Overcoming fear of failure can be difficult, but it is crucial to reach success. People who are afraid of failure often underachieve and have too much activity in their brain's anxiety centers.

  3. Negativity: Being overly negative brings down everyone's energy and squashes creativity. This can be a sign of depression and is associated with overactivity in the limbic system, our emotional centers.

  4. Rigid Thinking: Being inflexible can harm your career advancement and cause others to leave your company. People with rigid thinking tend to have too much activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus, causing them to get stuck in unhelpful thinking patterns.

  5. Procrastination: Missed deadlines and procrastination can be a career killer. People who struggle with focus and follow-through often have low activity in the prefrontal cortex.

  6. Overconfidence: Thinking you know it all can prevent you from learning and growing, and limit your potential for success. This can be associated with overactivity in the basal ganglia and too little activity in the temporal lobes.

  7. Lack of Empathy: Lacking empathy can harm your relationships and hinder your ability to work effectively with others. This can be related to low activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus and the temporal lobes.

  8. Poor Self-Care: Neglecting your physical and mental health can harm your work performance and limit your potential for success. People who struggle with self-care typically have low activity in the prefrontal cortex.

  9. Impulsive Spending: Impulsive spending can cause financial stress and harm your career. This can be associated with low activity in the frontal lobes and too much activity in the limbic system.

By addressing these 9 habits and traits, you can improve your brain function and reach your career goals. Whether it's through stress reduction techniques, physical exercise, nutrition, or medication, taking steps to improve your brain health can help you achieve success.


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