The Achievement Trap
The Over-Achiever, People-Pleaser, and Perfectionist's Guide to Freedom and True Success
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The Achievement Trap
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Narrated by:
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Brandilyn Tebo
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Brandilyn Tebo
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The achievement trap is when we fall prey to the illusion that we must achieve in order to prove our worth (which leaves us stressed out and disconnected from our purpose). In the achievement trap, we forget that everything we do is a choice, that we are unconditionally worthy, that we have nothing to prove, and that goals are games we choose to play.
In this groundbreaking new book The Achievement Trap, acclaimed life coach Brandilyn Tebo shares a proven step-by-step process to getting rid of that pesky sense of never doing enough and never being good enough. She guides you through exercises and thought experiments that she uses with her clients to heal the root of their stress, indecisiveness, franticness, insecurity, and self-doubt. Listening to this book is like having your own personal no-nonsense life coach guiding you to achieving truly meaningful goals from a good feeling place.
- Symptoms of being stuck in the achievement trap are
- Frequently feels stressed, uncertain and afraid of what people will think
- Needs approval from others before going for it
- Regularly panics about not getting enough done
- Constantly feels inadequate despite accomplishments
- Judges worth based on business
- Self-quantifies (looks to numbers: weight, salary, or Instagram followers to measure worth)
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The philosophy it references to address self worth is relativism, that if nothing is true then you can choose how you interpret yourself anyway you want, which seems to be the current trend for experiencing the world socially and politically, at least from the left, so nothing new there. It also seems a little hypocritical that the author states in the book she no longer suffers from problems with overachievement and then in her next breath lists all of her achievements.
The book is definitely geared towards a middle class female perspective, although some of the book could still help some men. It is also difficult to listen to a narrator that sounds like a teenager constantly using upward inflections making every couple of sentences sound like a question when it isn't.
Because the book is so short, most if not all of the important information in here could be put into a single article with a few cognitive behavioural therapy exercises listed at the bottom.
After all that there aren't many books specifically on overachievement as a problem, most of them are books on HOW to achieve more. I think if this book was updated in a new edition that was geared to both sex's and went into better detail (with exercises that are more involved) it could become a very useful book.
Save time, read a few articles instead.
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