Danielle McGeough
speaker
2,182 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Danielle McGeough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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obsessive about it in a certain way in order to be able to learn something at the level of detail and minutia and the reps that it takes to be really good at something.
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And he's and it's so
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hard to not lose yourself in that or it's so hard when you're that obsessive about something to not lose something somewhere else in your life.
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And so I just I kind of want to point out that there is this wiring that particularly if you are someone who's let's do awesome stuff at an awesome level, you probably enjoy the feeling of just getting immersed in something.
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I know I do.
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But then what this can translate into.
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Is you feel guilty when you're not productive, even on weekends, even maybe on vacation, you feel quiet moments before you've consciously decided to.
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I know that I kind of have this habit of making a lot of my house stuff or my even my kids.
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If I'm not careful, I can turn them into more tasks and to kind of
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Fill that quiet moment.
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You might reach for your phone, not because you're bored, but because stillness feels like a question that maybe you don't really want to answer.
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Maybe it's just because you've been the reliable one at work, at home, in the group chat for so long that you've forgotten what it feels like to just be a person.
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So here's the thing: we have a performing self and we have a resting self.
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And the performing self has metrics.
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We have titles, we have tasks, we
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Have responsibilities, we have outputs, and the resting self has what?
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What exactly is it that the resting self has?
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And that's the uncomfortable part because when we remove the performance, many high performers don't find peace.
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They find anxiety, blankness, a weird grief that they can't quite name.
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I noticed this a lot with people too in retirement that when we have these
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