Ron Kaiser: The Addiction to Second Place
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Do you know what Competent Person's disease is?
Probably many of you have experienced it, without being even aware. It’s the addiction to second place. It’s when you don’t trust others to do tasks for you, when you don’t delegate, thinking that no one could do them better than you. It takes valuable time out of your pocket and many times it prevents you from achieving greatness and happiness in your life.
On today’s episode of Rejuvenaging, I’m going to explain this concept, why it’s affecting not only you but also other people’s lives, and what you can do to combat always putting yourself on second place.
In this episode, you will learn:
- The definition of “Competent Person’s” disease. (01:05)
- Who gets affected by this concept. (02:47)
- The perpetrators of Competent Person’s disease. (03:18)
- What to do if someone fails to accomplish the tasks you have delegated to them. (04:50)
- About the importance of having balance in your life. (06:00)
Resources:
- Website: https://www.thementalhealthgym.com/
- Book: Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm
- Email: ron.kaiser@thementalhealthgym.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. |
| 0:24.8 | This is the podcast that's designed to help you live enthusiastically today and tomorrow |
| 0:32.7 | and every other day. |
| 0:35.0 | As those of you who are frequent listeners know about once a month I have a podcast in which |
| 0:42.4 | I'm flying solo without any guests discussing various aspects related to Rejuvenaging or |
| 0:51.4 | mental health gym or positive health psychology in general. |
| 0:56.5 | Today is one of those episodes. |
| 0:59.3 | Do you know what competent persons' disease is? |
| 1:03.6 | Probably not because there aren't too many people other than myself who utilize that |
| 1:10.0 | term. |
| 1:11.1 | But I think it's an important one and it's the concept that I hope to spread around because |
| 1:15.7 | I hope it can lead to behavior change. |
| 1:19.2 | I call competent persons' disease the addiction to second place. |
| 1:24.9 | It tends to afflict people who tend to be very competent. |
| 1:29.9 | They know they're not losers. |
| 1:31.9 | In fact, they think pretty highly of themselves and their skills. |
| 1:37.1 | They think so highly of themselves that they tend to put themselves in second place. |
| 1:43.0 | Rejuvenaging others to be able to do what other people can do quite well and probably |
| 1:51.3 | should do so in order to maintain their own personal growth. |
| 1:56.4 | I think some of you may know what I mean. |
| 2:00.3 | That you may fill your time with doing not only the important tasks but also some tasks |
| 2:09.3 | that are less important and can be done with others like mailing a letter to make sure |
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