You Already Know What You’re Avoiding | Ep 126
Understanding despondency, high performer stagnation, and how to rebuild agency through focused action.
You’re still performing. You don’t feel sad.
But somewhere underneath it all… you’ve stopped believing it will change.
This episode breaks down despondency — a quiet, often invisible pattern sitting underneath high performance.
It’s different to burnout or giving up.
It’s the insidious whisper: “what’s the point?”
In this episode, we explore the psychology behind despondency — how it forms through repeated expectation → disappointment → meaning loops, and how high performers unknowingly…
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