Summary: We can get over-coached, over-instructed, over-advised. Even if our coaches, mentors, teachers and instructors are the best in their fields and have valuable ideas to share with us. Our desire to learn and grow, to keep getting better at what we do, to accomplish personal and professional objectives, can cause us to become too much the good student. All that learning from others can help build our skills and our brains. Which is useful to a point. But once that point is reached, it can become detrimental. It can crowd out our brilliance. It can crowd out our trust in ourselves. It can crowd out our capacity to learn and grow from our own experiences and our self evaluations. It can crowd out our self-confidence. Tune into this episode to learn why I recommend that you try trusting more in your own brilliance.
