Performance Addiction
The Dangerous New Syndrome and How to Stop It from Ruining Your Life
Chapter One
What Is Performance
Addiction?
Do you feel as if your life is in crisis? Every day, I meet people who
are better educated, better paid, and better housed than their parents
or grandparents were. But they are unhappy, and the unhappiness
does not seem to be related to social or financial circumstances.
Something else is going on.
Despite everything these people have going for them, they feel
the curse of the capable. They never have enough time to do what
they want to do. Their work has become a burden, the demands
relentless. Worst of all, they feel removed from those who should be
closest to them: family, friends, spouses, and children. And the
more capable they are, the more likely they feel caught in a swirl of
accelerating demands with diminishing time.
Is this happening to you? If so, why? And what can you do
about it?
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