The "Mental Traffic Jam": Why High Achievers Struggle to Speak Up

It's a quiet achiever. It's not that you don't have good ideas, but it's that you have way too much going on in your head. Instead of being present and being able to deliver what you want to say in a clear, coherent, calm way, you're thinking about not saying the wrong thing. — And it's this mental traffic jam that causes your message to come out less clear than it's actually supposed to be. That is what I call a quiet achiever. A quiet achiever is exactly in the name, quiet. Someone who's more introverted, who keeps to him or herself, but at the same time you're a high achiever. You're driven, you're career oriented, you're goal driven, you do want to advance in your career. And when it comes to work, you work hard, but you don't necessarily make a big deal about all of the work that you do. You're observant, you're a deep thinker, but you don't just talk for the sake of hearing your voice. As a quiet achiever myself, I fully understand what it's like to feel this, to experience this. You do not need to become a louder, more aggressive, or more dominant to be taken seriously in your career. You just need to become calmer, more confident, and clearer in what you have to say.