The More Successful You Get, the More Irrational You Become

Are You Being Ruled by Threats That Don’t Exist? One of the strangest patterns I’ve noticed after years of coaching high achievers is this: the more successful someone becomes, the more frightened they are. Not of real danger, but of things that mostly exist in their imagination. I’ve come to think of it as being afraid of ghosts. Invisible threats, invented catastrophes, worst-case scenarios that feel urgent and real, even though there’s no evidence they’re actually going to happen. What makes…