There is a strange pattern I’ve been noticing lately, and I see it almost everywhere.
I see it in founders who just closed a major round of funding. I see it in seasoned executives who have finally reached the top of their industry. I see it in students with perfect grades, and in parents who are managing their households flawlessly.
By every metric society uses to measure success, these people are winning. They have climbed to the exact peak they were told to aim for.
So why do so many of them look like they are struggling for oxygen?