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Why Does Patrick Lencioni Call Success an Addiction?
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Patrick Lencioni is the founder of The Table Group and the author of fourteen books, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which has never left print since 2002 and sits in the library of virtually every serious leadership program in the world. The Wall Street Journal has called him one of the most sought-after business speakers in America.
He has also publicly said that worldly achievement is no different than addiction. That you can get addicted to it in the same way people get addicted to anything else that promises fulfillment and delivers only the need for more. He said it because he has felt it himself.
In this conversation, Patrick names on record the fear of failing that drove him for forty-five years, the wound most high achievers mistake for their superpower, the dimension of his life most business hosts consistently ignore, the specific therapy work that finally let him set down what he had been carrying since Bakersfield, and the framework that emerged from his own discovery that he had spent decades doing things that were draining the joy out of his life.
Topics include:
Why the wound that made you successful will never make you fulfilled; Tiger Woods and the peace success cannot buy; the identity you built at age eight to survive; the Working Genius framework and the job that set Patrick up to fail out of college; and what Patrick himself still finds hardest to say out loud.
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