Success trap

Which brings us to the absolute philosophical climax of this trajectory.

The text defines this paralyzing scenario as the success trap.

The mechanics of this trap are ruthlessly elegant.

The audience discovers the artist precisely because the artist is unusual.

To rebel against the polished mainstream, they had to become wild, weird, and incomprehensible.

But to rebel against their own commodified weirdness, they might have to embrace the very normality they originally sought to destroy.

That is the genius and the inescapable horror of the success trap.

It strips you of your original tools of rebellion by turning those tools into your prison bars.

I actually posted something on Facebook the other day and queried my audience, my friends.

And one of the things that somebody asked for us to talk about, which is this idea of the success trap.

This idea that when you've got a lot going on in your life and you're a high achiever, but then more stops making your life better.

So today we've got eight amazing strategies to talk about.

You know this.

This is the success trap that a lot of founders and business owners fall into.

The business starts to work When revenue's growing and opportunities are increasing, you add employees, you're gonna add clients and products and investments and responsibilities, and eventually, you have more money, have more recognition and more opportunity, but you have less freedom.

And that's not success, especially if the freedom was one of the reasons you wanted to create a business in the first place.