7 Psychological Traps That Can Undermine Your Success

By Shana Lebowitz

There are plenty of external factors that can hold you back from success at work — from a dismal economy to backstabbing coworkers.

But when it comes to professional achievement, you can easily be your own worst enemy. By keeping quiet in meetings when you've got a different opinion or toiling over a project report past midnight, you may actually be acting against your own interest.

Here, we've listed seven ways people sabotage their own career success, often without even realizing it.