Pressure is often credited for people’s success.

People think that pressure helps; they often say, "If I didn’t put pressure on myself, I’d just sit on the couch all day."

But it’s like having someone walk beside you, giving you crap your whole life. So, whenever you succeed, you figure, Well, it must be because of them, since they’re always there.

But just because you have cancer doesn’t mean you give it credit for anything you achieve while you have it. That should be obvious, right?

It’s a tumour. It’s actually in the way. You’d probably achieve more without it. You don’t give credit to your sickness.

Well, what if pressure is like sickness?

What if you could do even better without it?

I think this is why high performers really struggle with the idea that pressure isn’t helpful. They’re usually outperforming everyone around them. They think, “Yeah, but that’s still not the top of my potential”.

You always feel like you’ve failed, like it wasn’t good enough.

Giving credit to pressure is like assuming you perform better when you’ve got a brain tumour.

To dive deeper into this topic, check out the original video here:

https://youtu.be/zdMFIKc9qtA

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