To begin with: any growth inevitably brings more responsibility, more obligations, more processes, more decisions, and so on. And all of this inevitably means more tension.
Your income level depends on your ability to withstand that tension. The lower this ability, the harder it is to grow.
An example:
One person earns 100K and feels tension at 10 out of 10. He burns out, gets exhausted, and can barely imagine what else needs to be done to grow.
Another person earns 1M but feels tension at only 6 out of 10. He has more responsibility, yet it feels calmer inside.
The difference between them is not in intelligence or experience, but in how a person reacts and explains what’s happening to himself and where his energy goes.
When there are a lot of fears of evaluation/judgment/failure inside, idealism, making things up about others, secondary gains — all the energy goes into servicing these conflicts.
Tension is created not so much by external tasks as by what is happening inside. In other words, all the energy goes into fighting internal tension, and there is no strength left to deal with the external.
The tasks are the same, but the load is completely different, because for one person part of the resource has already been consumed by the internal struggle.
From this comes a conclusion that seems unexpected to many: to grow, you don’t need to increase the tension — you need to reduce it in what already exists.
If your current income level already costs you 10 out of 10, there is nowhere to go further: the psyche simply won’t allow growth, otherwise you’ll have to pay with your health.
First, you need to lower the load so that a reserve for growth appears.
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