Gurner: High achievers often use work success to escape personal shortcomings
Dr. Julie Gurner · Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 1): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly · Jun 27, 2023 · at 35:45
Executive coach Dr. Julie Gurner discusses the psychological tendency for elite performers to retreat into professional success when facing difficulties at home.
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“A lot of times people will use being good at work as an escape if they're bad at home. So like, for example, you'll see that sometimes people who reach pretty great heights aren't always the best dads. They're not always the best husbands. Sometimes they are. They're phenomenal, so I don't want to make that a generalization, but I think that it's also very easy to be pulled into areas where we feel competent and good, and where we feel rewarded, and where we feel that we're winning, and it's hard to go into areas where we might be falling down, we might be dropping the ball, we might need to do some work”
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