Operating from lack—chasing achievement to feel whole—creates burnout, as seen with Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong. True greatness comes from recognizing you're already whole, then pursuing a bigger vision from that foundation instead of trying to fill an internal void.
Force means I am driving from a place of lack. So there is a part of me that feels not whole. If I just achieve this thing, then I'm going to be whole and happy, right? And we see that at the most extremes with the people you just listed, right? If— when you were— what it takes to be world-class at something like Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong or Tom Brady is such an extreme dedication, that means necessarily you are deficient in other areas of your life. Right? Like, you don't get something for nothing. 100%. So if we are lucky enough at some point to discover how to do interpersonal work and go, wait a minute, before I get to this pinnacle and then realize that it didn't work and it all comes crashing down, maybe there's a way that I can fill up this hole inside of myself. And it's not through external validation and achievement. But that's the only possible way is how can I actually shift from creating from a place of lack to what we call power, which is, "Okay, I know that I am whole and complete, and I am good just the way I am, and I can hold a bigger vision, and I want to become the best version of myself along that path." And that's actually where true greatness is achieved, right? Is standing in that power of, "I am good just the way I am, but I hold this big vision."
