Next time someone at work tells you “the only person holding you back is yourself”, resist the urge to throttle them in the emergency stairwell or waterboard them behind the water cooler. Instead, ask yourself if they’re right. There’s a good chance they are – and, besides, the reason this workplace clich_ has become a clich_ is because it is so broadly applicable. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11362877/10-easy-to-fix-things-that-hold-you-back-at-work.html