What happens when you hit the goal… and still feel empty?

In this episode of The Big Lad Podcast, we dive deep into performance-based identity, self-worth, masculinity, discipline culture, and the hidden danger of tying your value to your physique, business, money, or achievements.

If you’ve ever:

• Felt flat after reaching a big milestone

• Struggled with post-goal depression

• Built your entire identity around discipline

• Wondered who you are without progress

• Felt guilty when you’re not “improving”

This episode is for you.

I break down:

• Hedonic adaptation and why success doesn’t satisfy for long

• Performance-based identity and the psychology behind it

• Ego attachment in fitness and entrepreneurship

• The pressure of always being “the disciplined one”

• Why high achievers struggle with rest and stillness

• How to build identity beyond achievement

• Meaning vs success (inspired by Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl)

• Insights from James Clear, Carl Jung, and Naval Ravikant

This is a deeper, introspective episode about masculinity, growth, mindset, discipline, identity, and what really drives high performers.

Because if you stripped away the physique, the business, the money, the medals…Who are you?

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