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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Nobody talks about why the most successful people in your family are often the loneliest and it's not because success isolates them it's because they were only ever rewarded for performing and now they don't know how to exist in a room without producing value - Silicon Canals

High achievers often struggle with loneliness because they learned early that self-worth depends on output, making it difficult to exist without constant achievement.
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks ago

Children who were praised only for achievements and never for simply existing often become adults who cannot relax unless they feel they've earned the right to - Silicon Canals

A child who only hears praise when they perform, who never hears 'I just like having you around' or 'You don't have to do anything special for me to love being your parent,' learns something far more corrosive: that their baseline state is insufficient. The lesson isn't explicit. No parent sits their child down and says, 'You are only lovable when productive.' The lesson is absorbed through thousands of micro-moments.
Parenting
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Why Are We So Obsessed with High Performance?

Performance pursuit is driven by biological needs for safety and belonging, reinforced by hierarchical social systems and modern rewards that make belonging conditional on achievement.
E-Commerce
fromBusiness Insider
6 months ago

Not your father's Amazon

Andy Jassy reshaped Amazon by prioritizing cost stabilization, enforcing a performance-first culture, and concentrating innovation on fewer, profitable "big bets."
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