Know Yourself: Part 1-What We Give Up To Get Ahead From the Series: Know Yourself: Unlocking Full Potential Through Self Knowledge
Summary: Psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Bill Anton from CEO Effectiveness explores how high achievers commonly over-emphasize parts of the personality that lead them to high achievement, while neglecting the other areas of the person. This often begins at an early age as we develop mental models and stories we tell ourselves about who we are, what we're good at, and how we believe other people perceive us. If unaware this can lead to dangerous imbalances that ultimately lead to poor performance, unhappiness, and being unfulfilled in our personal and professional lives. Highlights: -"All extremely high levels of achievement come at the expense of other areas of the personality." - "Our relationship with ourselves is the upper limit of the relationship we can have with anyone else." - Top Performers can overemphasize parts of their personality or skills that they associate with success, just like an Olympic athlete can become overspecialized. But this has very little integration with the rest of their life.
Dr. Bill Anton
