High Achievers
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about High Achievers, every show
Gates: High achievers often have something they are trying to prove
“Often when you see people who are, you know, high achievers, there's some, you know, something they're trying to prove.”
Mervosh: The smartest people become the biggest fools through intellectual overconfidence
“A fool's a certain of everything. What makes a fool a fool is you don't know that you're one. And you can't make use of it, and the biggest fools are the smartest people, the brightest bulb in the room, who are seduced by their own minds into a belief that the…”
High achievers over-index on career because business provides faster feedback loops
“The feedback loops for a lot of high achievers are so much quicker in your domain of career. And they're a lot longer in other areas like health, even or family or your marriage and relationship.”
Jonsson: High achievers must schedule mini breaks to interrupt rigid routines
“Being a high achiever, we want to deliver and we are the best cheerleader, but we also the best person perhaps to complain and say, oh, you can do better. Come on. You have to do it. So I have to remind myself also to let go sometimes. And I need to take some …”
Koppelman: High performers require enforced mental breaks to succeed
“It's not surprising to me that so many of us who are high achievers, aggressive in going after what we want, willing to take risks, That finding some tool that gives you some enforced break from that, it's not surprising to me that that then, when you then com…”