My younger brother has asked for my help. He is 32 and works as an actuary. He is always always bored with his job - even though this position was tailor made for him. It's very corporate with lots of rules and he often hears how close he is to disciplinary hearings for attitude, not working to his potential, being dismissive of people, not communicating effectively to those he views as knowing less than himself etc.
He is a stickler for the rules and often complains about his bosses/ superiors demanding him to stick to rules and then they themselves not complying.
He has finally realised that a large part of his issue is that instead of doing his best, he only delivers *just* good enough to get the job done within the required perameters.
I have been warning him of this since he was in Primary school, in cubs and scouts... He always only ever just *just* enough to pass or get the badge etc. Never his top work.
So today he asked me what he can do to unlearn this learnt underachievement (I mentioned to him an article I read a while back about learnt underachievement sticking after age 8 and being hard to change)
So I need your advice and help please - he likes practical steps, do x, y, z to get a specific result. He thinks people should work the same way. Any advice, links to articles, tips, tricks - what works for you, what works for helping your kids undo this underachievement?
