Competitive, results-oriented, driven to be the best. We live in a culture of achievement. But what happens when that achievement culture becomes too much when the load of it, whether it's

the drive to reach financial independence at an earlier age or the drive to reach a certain net worth, the drive to get promoted

in your company, the drive to be a better parent, the drive to succeed in whichever way you define

it, or perhaps all of the the myriad of ways in which you define it

what happens when that becomes overwhelming you don't want to sacrifice the dream, but you also need the pathway

to be sustainable. That's what we're going to discuss today. Welcome to the

Afford Anything Podcast, the show that understands you can afford anything, but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else.

And that doesn't just apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention to any

limited resource you need to manage and that opens up two questions. First, what

matters most and second, how do you make decisions accordingly? Now answering those two questions is a lifetime practice

and that's what this show is here to facilitate.

My name is Paula Pan, I'm the host of the Ford Anything podcast.

On today's episode episode Jennifer Braney Wallace the author of the

New York Times bestseller Never Enough when Achievement Culture becomes toxic and

what we can do about it,

shares with us how to manage our need for success

and simultaneously avoid the traps that come with that obsession.

So she offers insights into the consequences

of a culture that is obsessed with success and discusses very practical solutions to

common challenges that we face. So if you have ever felt the burnout that comes

from trying to do it all and you feel like

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