Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Burnout: Are Success Scripts Driving You? #shorts

2 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker challenges the common belief that burnout is simply the result of being overloaded with tasks and commitments. He urges listeners to consider who gave them permission to say "yes" to every demand and whose priorities they are actually pursuing. The talk introduces the concept of "success scripts"—pre‑existing, often family‑or societal narratives that equate love, acceptance, or status with relentless achievement. These scripts, the speaker argues, can compel people—especially entrepreneurs—to over‑commit in order to feel valued, leading to burnout. The overall message is a call for self‑reflection on the external motivations behind one’s drive for success.

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Well, we think burnout is associated with doing too much, right? Where we've obviously got too full of calendars, there's too many things on our plate, there's too many balls in the air, too many commitment, too ambitious equals burnout. But often when we take a step back, we have to ask ourselves, well, who said yes to all of those things? What is the energy driving those decisions? Yeah. Whose priorities are these? Why am I chasing so much? And sometimes the success scripts that we're working so hard to chase and fulfill and achieve, and the boxes that we're trying to check off, were not even created by us in the first place. You know, it might have been what was modeled to us as, if you do enough, you will be loved, or if you achieve enough, then I will Prioritize you, or, you know, whatever those familial patterns were. Yeah. Um, that maybe was the first place that we decided that we needed to chase and push and do more in order to be accepted and in order to be loved. Yeah. And if that resonates with you, you're probably an entrepreneur.