Why Successful Men Always Self-Destruct - Connor Beaton - 1039

Why do so many high-functioning men self-destruct in private? It's like you're like describing my my clients. Oh boy. I think there's a number of different reasons. There's there's trying to maintain this image externally, and part of that image is the perfectionist.

So there's never any room for downfall. There's never any room for weakness. There's never any room for problems or issues. And so for a lot of men, that becomes, it becomes something that they start to medicate. And usually that has rooting in childhood.

Right, that they had to be a certain way in order to garner love, to garner attention. So for a lot of super high performing men, they're, you know, they grew up in an environment where they kind of had to be perfect. And if they were perfect enough, then they would get affection, then they would get love, they would get praise, they'd get validation. And so for a lot of young guys, it's like a lot of men in general, it's if I can be perfect enough and I can perform well enough, then everything will be okay.

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