Are you a Post-Achievement Professional?
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Are you a Post-Achievement Professional?
The life we call “normal” isn’t normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job... who said that was life? What’s so great about working in a factory or a cubicle? You and I, who are artists and entrepreneurs, live a life that’s closer to natural, if you ask me. We migrate, too. We follow the muse instead of the sun.... See more
All addictions share,
The material and status comforts vary, but the story usually goes something like this: They already have some level of success for themselves, and they’re sick of playing the game they’ve been playing for twenty-plus years. Deep down, they want something more meaningful and fulfilling for their lives; they know they want to make a course correction
... See moreheroic individualism: an ongoing game of one-upmanship, against both yourself and others, paired with the limiting belief that measurable achievement is the only arbiter of success. Even if you do a good job hiding it on the outside, with heroic individualism you chronically feel like you never quite reach the finish line that is lasting fulfillmen
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