Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly show to help you with the ins, outs, ups and downs of work where Sarah and I share some insights and ideas for action to help you feel more confident and in control of your career development.

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So today we're going to be talking about achievement overload and we sort of have a

subtitle for today's podcast, which I'm not sure if that's what you're meant to do or not really,

probably not. But understanding how a need to achieve can get in the way of your growth.

So we're just going to explore a bit

this idea of achievement when it can tip over into over achievement and how that can be

unhelpful. And I think we will have all had those moments where we perhaps get a bit too driven

or a bit too focused on something that's really important to us. And so we're going

to explore this sort of tension between achievement that could be really helpful in your career

and overachievement that I think can be unhelpful. And before we get started, we just wanted to give

a squiggly shout out to Emma Gannon, who has a new book called The Success Myth, which you can pre-order now from

bookshop.org. It comes out in May 2023, so not too long to wait for it. And if you've ever

read or listened to Emma before, you know that it will be a really insightful and thoughtful

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