Gary Kadi reflects on the personal cost of pursuing high achievement: chronic exhaustion, damaged relationships, anger, and loss of inner peace. He argues that success should energize life rather than deplete it, and frames his own long-term high-throttle work habits as a cautionary example leading to mental and physical emptiness.
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Success should be a fuel source, not a drain on your life. Right? If your success is leaving you exhausted, that's an indicator that something's broken. Pay attention to that. See, pain is necessary. Suffering is optional. If you're staying in the suffering because that's all you've known, this is your opportunity to step out and take a new path. Winning shouldn't come at the cost of your health, relationships and inner peace. And you know, the key question here is, what is the point of winning if you feel so exhausted you can't even enjoy it? I mean, let's cut that out. I did that for many, many years. And I'm here to say it doesn't have to be that way. And we're going to talk about it because I know this cycle all too well. For years I operated at full throttle. My RPMs are frigging jacked all the time. Being on full throttle is fine when you're 30 or 40, but when you start turning 50 and you can't shut it off and 60 freaking forget it. There's no way I should be jamming the same way like I was. I wasn't just tired, but I was mentally and physically empty. I was snapping at my team. I was short tempered with my wife, hence the zero to a hundred. And I had this anger thing where I just would send everybody searching for a hiding place because that's the only way I got peace and time to myself. And worst of all, I didn't know how to stop.
