5 signs youre seen as a workaholic, but not as a high performer

There's a big difference between being a top performer in your office and being a workaholic.

You may be working longer hours than anyone else, but you're risking burnout — and you might not be using your time effectively.

While workaholics are constantly trying to gain the validation and approval of their superiors and colleagues, high performers know their worth and perform periodic self-evaluations to continue to better themselves nonetheless.

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Just because you're the first to arrive at the office every morning and the last one to leave every evening doesn't mean that you're the top performer of your workplace. In fact, it doesn't even mean that you're performing well at all.

First things first: Working crazy long hours and giving 110 percent around the clock is, almost inevitably, going to lead to burnout.

Second of all, there are some major differences between workaholics and top performers. In a 2014 LinkedIn post, renowned corporate speaker and self-proclaimed recovering workaholic Jullien Gordon writes that workaholism indeed looks a lot like high performance, but they actually occupy two very opposite ends of the spectrum.

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