People often limit their performance by feeling inappropriately inferior or superior to others. Experiments have shown, for example, that even fleeting exposure to derogatory comments about women causes women going for job interviews to lose confidence and be less assertive in what they want. Played out in the workplace, our sense of inferiority to others…
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