I don't hate any of this so far.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mon and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, where is the line between being a high achiever and being an overachiever?

When you are blending up chicken breast in your vitamins, you have gone too far. Angela, I have a question for you based on an article I was reading recently in the Wall Street

Journal called For Happiness in the New year stop over doing everything.

What an interesting article to be in the Wall Street Journal.

I would think the Wall Street Journal was like for happiness in the new year do more. Invest in these stocks. Exactly

isn't that what the Wall Street journals I don't know I don't read the Wall Street

journal so I have no idea. It was written by Julia DeGange. She is a clinical neuropsychologist and she writes about the difference

between being a high achiever and an overachiever.

Yeah, over, over it doesn't have a good vibe.

Right. There's this like goodness to say,

oh, I'm a high achiever, but no one wants to admit to being an overachiever.

She actually refers to it interestingly in this article as the overs. She said it's a

familiar list overworking, over achieving, over thinking, over explaining, overgiving, giving over committing and over accommodating

wow that's a lot of overs yes it is I think her point being that over obviously has this

negative connotation and so I ask question, what is the line between being a high achiever?

Because you are obviously a very high achieving person. You're a very driven person. I'd like to think so am I.

But I'll admit, sometimes I fall into this trap of maybe

being an overachiever and maybe that's driven by this need to prove my own

worth or dare I say perfectionism but perfectionism as maybe a

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