The dominant impression or impression is the impression that a person has about something. To me, this is like the top 3 impressions I see in a person’s eye. If I see the dominant impression, I think something good about them and will probably return the favor in some way.
I’m not sure why I even have a dominant impression. I think it’s because I see myself in people. I know what my personality is like, I’ve seen it in other people, and I know when I’m being dominant.
The dominant impression is the one that other people find impressive, or at least interesting. It can also be the first impression people have of you. One guy was sitting and just going through lines of code and I was like, “Who is this guy? He seems like a very smart guy.” I just shook my head and figured he was dumb because I was looking at his code and I knew nothing about him.
I thought that was pretty cool. It’s the kind of thing that you think, “Oh, I might have a chance here.
While the dominant impression can be a good starting place, it can also be a very dangerous place to be. Just as you think you have a chance at getting a job, you realize that you have zero chance. If you want to get a good job it is important to try to get the best impression possible of yourself so that the interviewer or hiring manager is not taken by surprise when they’re meeting you.
Yes, we’ve all done it. We put too much stock in dominant impressions to become a good team player. We try to put all of our effort into the smallest of things. We start to doubt ourselves and our ability to get work done. We lose our focus and we begin to self-sabotage. In fact, we are so distracted by our own self-criticism that we begin to doubt that we are doing anything right.
The key to succeeding at work is to really see what you’re good at. We make a mistake when we don’t get fired by making sure we’re good at that one thing. We know that we can’t be good at everything. However, we can be good at at least one thing and that’s in our area of expertise. We don’t make a mistake by thinking we can be good at everything.
Most people don’t realize that we have a problem with our own pride. We constantly want to be better than other people. Our goal, when we’re not good enough at something, is to become better. The problem is that we are often so distracted by the success of others (as well as ourselves) that we are failing to see our own shortcomings. A successful person is someone who is good at something and is proud of it.
Some of the best people are the ones who never stop learning. The ones who have never learned anything are the weakest people. They are always looking for the next thing to learn, they are always looking for the next thing they can do to be better.
The problem is that we are so busy with ourselves that we are often so distracted by success that we never take the time to learn. We are quick to try to do “new” things but are slow to practice any new things. We are so focused on our own success that we often miss the lessons that are in the process of being taught.
