And now it's time to ask the shrink.

Hey, welcome to this bonus Q&A episode of shrink for the shag guy.

I'm Dr. Aziz.

And today, we're going to be looking at a question about being overlooked at work.

Is this something that you can relate to, something you've experienced?

So this is actually a composition of a few different questions that have come up recently

in some of the clients we've been working with in my mastermind program.

And across the board, they all have this similar situation where they are

being overlooked at work. They do have expertise. They have knowledge. They have experience. And

people aren't going to them. People aren't asking them. In meetings, they are being either ignored

or they give their opinion and then someone else's seems more valid or the director

or leader kind of goes with someone else's perspective even though my clients know a lot about

what's going on and it's extremely frustrating for them because it's not that they're not

intelligent that they don't know their industry they're not very skilled in their work, it's about their confidence. And so when our confidence is low in certain ways, we get overlooked. So I want to answer that question right now in today's episode, and if you can relate to this, then you're going to love this. So are you tired of being overlooked? Is that happening to you? I'm going to share why right now.

If you're getting overlooked at work, it's because you want to be.

Dun, dun, do you, sir?

All right, let me frame it in a different way.

If you're getting overlooked at work, it's because part of you is wanting that. Maybe not all

of you. Maybe part of you inside there is like, no, I want to get noticed. I want to have my ideas

shared. I want to be leadership. I want to contribute more. And then there's another part inside

of there that's like, eke. I don't want any of those things. I want to lay low. Because here's the thing,

a long time ago, probably in school, maybe even before that in your family where you grew up,

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