forgoing opportunities to “sell” or “promote” ourselves in the workplace and choosing, instead, to point out others’ good work often has real consequences in the business world. We like to think that good, honest work will be recognized in the long run, but that is not necessarily the case. Thus, being able to “take the lowest place” in life requires us to master the neurotic anxiety that we might get “passed over,” that we might not “get ahead” or be as “successful” as others. If we don’t master this fear we begin to anxiously push, overly asserting or promoting ourselves in an attempt to
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