Over-egging means trying too hard to improve something and thereby spoiling it. The meaning has been derived from over-egging the pudding. Trying to improve the pudding by using too many eggs I guess?
It also means embellishing or exaggerating.
For me this is the meaning that I understand it to be, especially the embellishing part.
We all know that we are guilty of doing this, whether it is on CV’s (Resumés) or on our LinkedIn profiles. #OMG, I see so many LinkedIn profiles these days that are so obviously over-egged.
I just wonder why? Are we also desperate for approval, fear of not being accepted, we are trying to come across as more experienced, more established, more impressive compared to our neighbours on LinkedIn? It looks so obvious, I’m so surprised folks do not recognise this phenomena in themselves.
You know if they taught this stuff in schools, maybe we would have better looking profiles on LinkedIn, instead of all those lookalike profiles that sound the same and have no distinctive features whatsoever.
It could be of course that most of us are suffering from that good old ‘limiting beliefs syndrome’, something that I am noticing in my network more and more. Our parents and teachers do have a lot to answer for.
Happy over-egging!