Patrick Lencioni

There are certain things in life every CEO, every leader has to do all of them a little bit.

Sometimes because of the way we're raised, we have this desire to achieve.

I had this growing up.

And I was actually really good at the things I hated.

the first job I got out of college was a job organized around the very things I liked least.

But because I had this achievement mentality, it was like, then I am going to do it.

And I've come to realize now that I have wounds that I didn't even know were wounds.

I thought they were my superpowers.

And you're young and you're like, I can power through anything.

And that doesn't mean we're meant to.

And

So as you understand your geniuses more, it'll be nice for you to be able to go, I don't have to be good at that.

You know?

But for the longest time, when I was young, I was doing all the things I didn't necessarily like.

And I said, see, I'm pretty good at this.

Absolutely.

There are certain things in life where we, and in fact, even in any job, every CEO, every leader has to do all of them a little bit.

But if they over-index on the ones that drain them of energy and they don't give themselves the experience of spending a lot of time in their genius, it's really bad.

It's really bad.

And burnout and really, I think a lot of addiction comes from that, a lot of really difficult things because we are meant to exercise the gifts we've been given.