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Embrace a Growth Mindset
By understanding that there is abundant room for growth, improvement, and success, you free yourself from needing approval from others.
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Behind Your Need for Approval
Reflect on how your childhood or early development may be contributing to your current approval-seeking behavior. In many cases, a tendency to seek approval at work stems from something in your past.
For example, were you taught to respect authority growing up? If so, you may feel uncom...
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Approval-seeking territory
You're in this territory if you:
- Change or downplay your point of view to appease your boss or agree with the rest of the team in meetings.
- Compliment colleagues’ work, so they’ll like you.
- Always say yes to requests for your time, even if it means comp...
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Being rejected
Research has shown that social rejection activates many of the same brain regions involved in physical pain, which helps explains why disapproval stings.
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Accept Rejection
See disapproval as a form of feedback, as information you can use to improve and make your next performance even stronger. It also helps to also re-frame rejection as something positive.
It means you’re moving forward and pushing limits, rather than just staying in your comfort zone.
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Focus on the Process, Not Outcomes
If you usually seek approval, focus on improving processes, rather than achieving a particular outcome.
When you focus your energy on one singular result (getting a promotion or raise for example) you attach your self-worth to external standards—which may be outside of your control.
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