Especially in the workplace, I became astutely aware of other people who hadn’t quite gotten over this particular teenage insecurity of needing to be the smartest person in the room, and they’d usually not even realise it. They’d usually express this not just by using sophistimacated-sounding words rather than speaking in plain language, but also:
over-explaining concepts,
over-researching problems,
over-planning projects, and
over-engineering solutions.
So, what can we do about it?
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