“So every time you succeed at something, you feel good because success is supposed to feel good. But you also feel like you’re digging your own grave as, inevitably, that success will be used against you at some point in the future.” “Yeah,” Alex agrees. “And as an adult, your self-worth is all tied up in your accomplishments. So even when you’re successful, you don’t feel as if you’re good enough. The minute you’ve achieved something, the achievement gets added to the list of things that make any failures even more noteworthy. And when you do fail at something, it feels like the end of the
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