Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

The Hidden Struggles Behind High Achievements #adhd #neurodivergent #impostersyndrome e

17 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A high-achiever working 80-100 hour weeks at a demanding school felt like a fraud despite visible success. They realized their crushing self-expectations weren't coming from others, but from inside, fueling burnout and the impostor syndrome many neurodivergent people experience.

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Why didn't I do whatever? So at the end of every single day, right, for me was I worked in a really high-pressured school and it was like we needed to do like all this stuff. And at the end of every single day when I worked there, I'd be like, I hadn't done enough. And I was working like 80 hours, sometimes 100 hours a week. And it was just like, I haven't done enough. I haven't done enough. And I remember everybody saying like, wow, you make it look so easy. And I'm like, this is not easy, but like I'm still not meeting the expectation. That was my fear. But I realized the expectation was my expectation. It wasn't anybody else's expectation because everyone else thought I was killing it and I was still doing that. So, you know, it leads to burnout, right?