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#589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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The Tension Between Success and the Desire to Feel Like You're Enough

The tension between success and the desire to feel like we're enough is something that I see in pretty much every successful person. Failure can make you miserable, but I'm not sure that success will make you happy. The majority of high performers are driven by a fear of insufficiency rather than some perfectly balanced, holistic desire to be better.

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