How to Break Free from Achiever Fever with Claire Booth

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode, You'll Learn:

What “achiever fever” is and the negative health effects that are linked to it
How we often tie happiness and self worth to achieving and how to shift that perspective
Why the inner critic often shows up and how we can learn to effectively deal with it
How we can recognize our powerful default behaviors, learn to pay attention to how they distract us
How to learn to worry less by accepting what we can’t change and practicing letting go

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0:00.0	In case you're just recently joining us or have, or long, you've been a listener of the show,
0:04.3	you may not realize that we have years and years of incredible episodes in our archives.
0:09.3	We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to handpick one of our favorites that
0:14.0	may be new to you, but if not, it's definitely worth another lesson. We hope you'll enjoy this episode
0:20.0	with Claire Booth. When we put the achievement as the absolute pinnacle of who we are and thus our
0:27.3	happiness in our self-worth, that's when we completely lose perspective.
0:39.6	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:44.7	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:51.7	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:57.8	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
1:04.4	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
1:11.0	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
1:16.8	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:35.5	In 1980, cocaine was captivating and corrupting Miami. The car kills, they just killed everybody
1:41.7	in the town. Setting an aspiring private investigator on a collision course with corruption and multiple
1:47.2	murders. The detective agency would turn out to be a front for our drug pilot. Would claim he did
1:51.7	it all for the CIA. I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco. Join me for murder in Miami. Check my walking into the
1:57.8	devil's den. Listen to murder in Miami on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
2:04.2	podcasts. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Claire Booth, an entrepreneur, author, and
2:11.5	speaker. She's the founder and CEO of Market Research firm Lux Insights with two decades of
2:17.8	experience serving some of the world's most recognized brands. Her book is The Achiever Fever
2:23.6	Cure. How I Learned Stop Striving Myself Crazy. Hi Claire, welcome to the show. Hi Eric, thanks for
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