Slate has a new blog by Gretchen Rubin title The Happiness Project.Â
I’ve picked up a useful term from psychology:unconscious overclaiming. It’s certainly something I’m guilty of.
Unconscious overclaiming is the phenomenon in which we unconsciously overestimate our contributions or skills relative to other people’s. In one study, for example, when students in a work group each estimated their contribution to the team, the total was 139 percent.
Personally, I’d rather be doing less of the work. At least, the work that I don’t want to do. But neither do I want to be idle.