Everyone thinks they do more than the other person

I actually came up with this equation from experiencing staff mentality over the years. Ask anyone on a team and they’ll tell you their working harder than the rest. Most of them are wrong, and its not because they’re lying.

Perceived Workload Superiority (PWS) = (Subjective Effort (SE) x Egocentric Bias (EB)) + ((1 - Awareness of Others’ Work (AOW)) / Skewed Comparisons (SC)) + (Inexperience (IE) + Ignorance (I))

Breaking it down.

Subjective effort is how hard you think your working. You feel your own time, energy and stress, you dont feel anyone elses. So yours always seems bigger.

Egocentric bias. Your closest to your own work so it looks the most important.

Awareness of others work. You dont see most of what other people do, and the less you see the more sure you are that your carrying them.

Skewed comparisons. You judge other people on what they finished and yourself on everything you had to get through to finish it. Thats not a fair comparison.

Inexperience and ignorance. If you’ve never done someones job you have no idea what it takes, so you underrate it.

Put all that together and nearly everyone thinks they’re doing the most. It’s rarely true, its just how peoples heads work.

Understand what your colleagues do and how your role fits into the bigger picture. Once people can see that, most of the who does more arguments just stop.

Everyone always thinks they do more than the other person, but assumptions are dumb.