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If Your Self-Evaluation Is Low, Your Actual Evaluation Will Also Be Low

What can you do about it?

I think it’s easy to imagine that it’s a problem if your self-evaluation is too high, but it’s also a problem if it’s too low. In fact, it may cause more serious problems. Excessively low self-esteem often leads to self-denial rather than humility.

This will eventually develop into negativity towards your work and team. This is really not good. This has a negative impact not only on the person themselves but also on those around them, producing negative outputs that cancel out the positive outputs of work.

At the same time as you work, you also try to reduce it, so even if you achieve results, you will not be able to fully evaluate them. Then, the negative cycle of self-evaluation dropping again is completed.

Even if it’s not that extreme, if a person with low self-esteem gets a position like a senior engineer or a leader, that also tends to lead to misfortune.

It may sound good to say that you are “hard on yourself,” but if your self-esteem is low, other people’s evaluations of you tend to be low as a result. If you start making evaluations like, “What on earth is this guy doing that he can’t do as much as I can?’’ then everyone involved will be unhappy.

Such people often have high practical ability (in that respect, their strictness has a positive effect on them), and they are often placed in higher positions when small companies increase the number of people. However, I feel like organizations often don’t scale well because everyone else can’t keep up. I don’t know.

Even if you do not take on management duties, if code reviews or technical discussions have a negative impact on those around you, the organization will not be able to give you a high evaluation.

If strong people have low self-evaluation, the evaluation of the entire organization will remain at a low level. This leads to a tragedy in which no one belonging to that organization is valued. As an organization, even if we want to rate such people highly, we will not be able to do so.

I’ve been working on the web for quite some time, and I feel like I’ve seen quite a few cases where low self-evaluation goes around and lowers the actual evaluation.

I think it’s difficult to always evaluate yourself highly, but if your self-evaluation is relatively low, you can say, “I don’t think so myself, but the fact that others around me value it means that it has some value.’’ I hope you can capture it at the level of “Deaf’’.

If you don’t believe in yourself, maybe it’s okay to have a little more faith in someone who recognizes your worth.