The document lists 20 habits that can hold people back from achieving their full potential, including winning at all costs, always needing to add one's opinion, negatively judging others, making cutting remarks, using negativity like saying "no" or "but", boasting about one's intelligence, speaking angrily, being overly negative, withholding information, failing to give recognition, taking credit that is not deserved, clinging to the past instead of taking responsibility, making excuses, playing favorites, refusing to admit regret or mistakes, not listening, failing to express gratitude, punishing messengers, passing the buck, and having an excessive need to assert one's own identity over all else.
6. 5.Starting with “No”, “But” or
“However”
The over use of
No…But these negativity
qualifiers which
secretly say to
everyone, “I am
right. You’re
wrong
7. 6.Telling the world how smart we are
The need to
show the
people we’re
smarter than
they think we
are
8. 7.Speaking when angry
Using
emotional
volatility as a
management
tool with or
without
knowledge
9. 8.Negativity, or “Let me explain
why that won’t work”
The need to
share our
negative
thoughts even
when we
weren’t asked
10. 9.Withholding information
The refusal to
share information
in order to
maintain an
advantage over
others
11. 10.Failing to give proper recognition
The
inability
to praise
and
reward
12. 11.Claiming credit that we
don’t deserve
The most
annoying
way to
overestimate
our
contribution
to any
success
13. 12.Clinginging to the past
The need to
deflect blame
away from
ourselves and
onto events and
people from our
past; a subset of
blaming
everyone else
14. 13.Making excuses
The need to
reposition our
annoying
behavior as a
permanent
fixture so
people excuse
us for it