Do you buy into the myth that success alone brings happiness and fulfillment? The techniques 95% of Americans use to strive for success, growth, and personal development guarantees they won’t be fulfilled in the long run. There is a completely different and unique way to approach success. And it’s imperative you discover this way to gain personal happiness, success, and insane amounts of growth in your life. In today’s episode, you’ll discover how to experience success and growth — while also being happy, fulfilled, and not having to wait until you succeed in order to be happy. Listen now! Show Highlights: <ul> <li>The polar-opposite method to build a financial empire comparable to Rome (without stress, anxiety, and depression) (1:20)</li> <li>How your parents lied to you about the concept of self-worth (and how this lie keeps you mired in a state of loneliness and poverty) (3:26)</li> <li>The counter-intuitive way dreaming of “sipping pina coladas on the beach” will force you to become a desperate workaholic who never spends time with your kids (11:15)</li> <li>How immersing yourself in “flow capital” will scientifically unlock a never ending state of high happiness (13:28)</li> <li>Why you’ll chain yourself down with concrete in the Hudson River if you wake up with nothing to do on Monday (14:25)</li> </ul>

Do you buy into the myth that success alone brings happiness and fulfillment? The techniques 95% of Americans use to strive for success, growth, and personal development guarantees they won’t be fulfilled in the long run. There is a completely different and unique way to approach success. And it’s imperative you discover this way to gain personal happiness, success, and insane amounts of growth in your life. In today’s episode, you’ll discover how to experience success and growth — while also being happy, fulfilled, and not having to wait until you succeed in order to be happy. Listen now! Show Highlights: The polar-opposite method to build a financial empire comparable to Rome (without stress, anxiety, and depression) (1:20) How your parents lied to you about the concept of self-worth (and how this lie keeps you mired in a state of loneliness and poverty) (3:26) The counter-intuitive way dreaming of “sipping pina coladas on the beach” will force you to become a desperate workaholic who never spends time with your kids (11:15) How immersing yourself in “flow capital” will scientifically unlock a never ending state of high happiness (13:28) Why you’ll chain yourself down with concrete in the Hudson River if you wake up with nothing to do on Monday (14:25)

Self-Criticism vs. Self-Acceptance

Beyond Success is a podcast for people who have achieved enough to see that achievement is not the full answer.

Its listeners have built careers, companies, wealth, and lives others admire. But success has left important things unresolved: love, intimacy, connection, meaning, legacy. A sense of what all of it is finally for.

This podcast addresses that problem at the level it deserves... and makes the case most listeners haven't heard: the inner life is what shapes the outer one. What you build next, who you build it with, and what your life ends up adding up to are produced by what's been worked through under the surface. This inner work is what produces the satisfaction, fulfillment, and joy that achievement alone was never going to deliver... and a clearer answer to what the next decade is for. 

I'm David Tian, Private Adviser to founders, leaders, and high achievers on the inner life of success. My background is in philosophy, psychology, and deep therapeutic work. I was a tenure-track philosophy professor at the National University of Singapore, with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and fellowships from Harvard and Princeton. I'm also a Certified IFS Therapy Practitioner (Level 3) and a Brown University Certified Leadership Coach.

In this podcast, I draw on Asian philosophy, modern psychology, and two decades of work with accomplished people who have achieved a great deal and still do not know what should come next. We examine the questions that remain when ambition has done its job and still left a gap. What a good life requires. What is worth wanting. What love is and what love asks of a person. What kind of inner life can support responsibility, deep attachment, and moral clarity. And how the inner work that resolves these questions also shapes the outer life it's pointed at. 

This is not a podcast about just getting more done. Instead, it's about understanding what success can give, what it cannot, and what the inner work of the next chapter actually requires.

If success has started to feel incomplete, this podcast will help you make sense of what should come next.

For more about David Tian, go here:
https://www.davidtianphd.com/about/

Emotional Mastery is David Tian's step-by-step system to transform, regulate, and control your emotions... so that you can master yourself, your interactions with others, and your relationships... and live a life worth living. Learn more here:
https://www.davidtianphd.com/emotionalmastery/

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Beyond Success is a podcast for people who have achieved enough to see that achievement is not the full answer. Its listeners have built careers, companies, wealth, and lives others admire. But success has left important things unresolved: love, intimacy, connection, meaning, legacy. A sense of what all of it is finally for. This podcast addresses that problem at the level it deserves... and makes the case most listeners haven't heard: the inner life is what shapes the outer one. What you build next, who you build it with, and what your life ends up adding up to are produced by what's been worked through under the surface. This inner work is what produces the satisfaction, fulfillment, and joy that achievement alone was never going to deliver... and a clearer answer to what the next decade is for. I'm David Tian, Private Adviser to founders, leaders, and high achievers on the inner life of success. My background is in philosophy, psychology, and deep therapeutic work. I was a tenure-track philosophy professor at the National University of Singapore, with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and fellowships from Harvard and Princeton. I'm also a Certified IFS Therapy Practitioner (Level 3) and a Brown University Certified Leadership Coach. In this podcast, I draw on Asian philosophy, modern psychology, and two decades of work with accomplished people who have achieved a great deal and still do not know what should come next. We examine the questions that remain when ambition has done its job and still left a gap. What a good life requires. What is worth wanting. What love is and what love asks of a person. What kind of inner life can support responsibility, deep attachment, and moral clarity. And how the inner work that resolves these questions also shapes the outer life it's pointed at. This is not a podcast about just getting more done. Instead, it's about understanding what success can give, what it cannot, and what the inner work of the next chapter actually requires. If success has started to feel incomplete, this podcast will help you make sense of what should come next. For more about David Tian, go here: https://www.davidtianphd.com/about/ Emotional Mastery is David Tian's step-by-step system to transform, regulate, and control your emotions... so that you can master yourself, your interactions with others, and your relationships... and live a life worth living. Learn more here: https://www.davidtianphd.com/emotionalmastery/

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