16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People - Michael Smoak - #1083
Apr 11, 2026 · 2h 2m · YouTube
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0:00I have a hard time celebrating my achievements because, in my mind, it was my obligation to achieve it.
0:05Oh, the dilemma of the high achiever.
0:08I know you don't struggle with this at all, right?
0:10I know this truly.
0:11Game recognizes game, as they say.
0:13Yes, yes, all from a place of deep wounds and the desire to be adequate and enough.
0:17Yeah, I have a hard time celebrating my achievements and wins because it was in my mind.
0:21In my mind, it was my obligation to achieve them.
0:23And not only that, I think the group of people we hang out with, you hang out with, I hang out with, makes the exceptional seem extremely normal.
0:31I was having a conversation the other day with a friend who both of us had long runs.
0:35And I was running 16, he was running 20.
0:38And there was a time a couple of years ago where you couldn't have paid me thousands of dollars to do anything but drive 16 miles.
0:43And the fact of the matter is the average person thinks that's crazy.
0:46And there was a time where I was extremely proud of that.
0:48I remember running my first 10 miles.
0:51I remember where I was.
0:52I remember what I was doing.
0:53It was sunny.
0:54We were in Atlanta on the belt line.
0:55And I remember when it hit 10 and I hit stop on the Apple Watch and I went, holy shit, I just ran 10 miles.
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