Most people love to talk about chasing success. But next to nobody talks about the slow drift into a life built entirely around other people's expectations that prevents it.

 
In this episode, Brad names the performance gap… the quiet distance between the life you're executing and the life you actually want…  and walks through exactly how it compounds. He explores why the skills that make high achievers successful are the same ones that keep them from questioning whether they're going in the right direction and offers three questions that cut through every story to surface what you really want.

The most dangerous thing a high achiever can do is get really, really good at living a life they never actually chose.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• The performance gap starts small (one yes to something that looks good on paper but isn't what you actually want) and compounds into a life built around everyone else's expectations.
• When success only produces relief instead of excitement, that's the signal you're performing a life rather than living one.
• High achievers are uniquely vulnerable to this trap because the skills that make them successful (executing, adapting, performing) are the same ones that keep them from questioning the direction they're going.
• The inability to answer "what do you want?" without referencing what you've already built is a sign there's no real future vision pulling you forward…
• How to navigate the deepest question on this topic: If no one would ever know, what would you do differently? The gap between that answer and your current life is the most important work you can do.
• Slowing down to evaluate direction isn't a threat to your momentum… it's the thing that makes real momentum possible. Climbing fast doesn't matter if the ladder is against the wrong wall.

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