16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People - Michael Smoak - #1083

I have a hard time celebrating my achievements because in my mind it was my obligation to achieve it. The dilemma of the high achiever. I know I know you don't struggle with this at all, right? I know this truly. Game recognizes game, as they say.

Yes, yes, all from a place of deep wounds and the desire to be adequate and enough. Yeah. I have a hard time celebrating my achievements and wins because it was in my mind, in my mind it was my obligation to achieve them. And not only that, I think the group of people we hang out with, you hang out with, I hang out with, makes the exceptional seem extremely normal.

I was having a conversation the other day with a friend who both of us had long runs and I was running 16, he was running 20, and there was a time a couple of years ago where you couldn't have paid me thousands of dollars to do anything but drive 16 miles. And the fact of the matter is the average person thinks that's crazy, and there was a time where I was extremely proud of that. I remember running my first 10 miles. I remember where I was.

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