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2006-11-29 15:24:46 · 6 answers · asked by marvin w 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I dont think there can be someone 'overachiever'. It is not a reality.
2006-11-29 15:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable with the amount of success he had or the way he makes you look bad when he does anything.
It's all very relative. Once people get to notice you, the simple act of putting a semicolon in the right place can be treated as showing off and get the idiot labelled as an overachiever. Regardless of the fact whether he really does anything great or not.
2006-11-29 23:36:24 · answer #2 · answered by WaterStrider 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Over" achieving is a matter of perspective. To a lazy good-for-nothing, doing anything is "overachieving". To the "average Joe", if anyone can define "average", overachieving is doing things far beyond what is asked for or required in any situation such as on a job or in school or relationship. For some people it's called "The Responsible One", the person who feels that the success or failure of anything or any situation is totally their responsibility. Sometimes an individual known as an obsessive-compulsive individual is seen as an overachiever since they continue to focus on a situation long after things are "as good as they're gonna get", and they actually make things worse by continually trying to improve things. Also known as the "Type A Personality", it's the individual who continues to try to perfect things that a) can never be perfect anyway, or b) have been perfect for a lonngggg time. These people are driven by an insecurity about themselves which they transpose or project on situations in their personal or professional lives. I knew a young man like that one time who was a good athlete among other things, and he would dang near kill himself to "win" in some game or supposed "contest" when there was no contest to win or lose. I knew his family, and there was a HUGE demand from his parents for themselves to "be the best that they could be" and for their children to be the same. I could tell you about one of his sisters who is also driven that way, by the inability to ever reach this imagined "perfection", and you would see how it has affected her personal and professional life. I'm sure everyone looks "up" to her in her professional life, but if you were ever allowed to know her personally, you'd find her a nervous wreck, still trying to live up to the demand of her parents' desires, and she'll never be able to have a warm family life of her own, because she cannot relax. But then, I could go on and on and on about it, giving one example after another, but then I'd be seen as an "overachiever", and, God forbid, I'd hate to be "diagnosed" as such, :-))))!! God Bless you.
2006-11-29 23:50:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say for instance there is a girl , and her boss, Tom, gives her an assignmnet to file some papers well an overachiever would file the papers, make copies of the papers to have a backup copy, reorganize the file cabinet, wash Tom's car, babysit his kids etc. Mostly it someone who tries too hard to satisfy. They feel doing just enough is not good enough so they feel obligated to give you everyhting you ask for plus more.
2006-11-29 23:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Achieving with the help of luck and fortune because it is beyond your capabilities.
2006-11-29 23:43:13 · answer #5 · answered by T Delfino 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>The guy who comes in first AND last in a circle jerk.<
2006-11-29 23:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by Druid 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋