HeyJaredThe Performance Heretic
Performance is worshipped. Embodiment is ignored. This Substack is for those ready to challenge the cult of optimisation - and remember what it means to feel human while doing hard things.
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We Are Not Building Adults (opens the original)
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Over the past year I have found myself working, again and again, with problems that are supposed to be separate: burnout, perfectionism, narcissistic collapse, emotional suppression so complete that a person cannot locate a feeling when you ask for one, identity foreclosure, abuse, trauma, and the extraordinary, disproportionate devastation that arrives when a career starts to come apart.Each of these has its own literature, its own measures, its own conference track. Rightly so. But I have beco
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