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David Tian, Ph.D., is Private Advisor to Founders, High Achievers, and Senior Leaders, Brown University Certified Leadership & Performance Coach, Certified IFS Therapy Practitioner (L3), ICF Certified Coach, devoted husband, proud father, and former university professor — helping build lives of connection, meaning, and fulfillment through Asian philosophy, psychological insight, and relational depth.
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The Move That Got You Here Is the Wrong Move for What’s Next
The playbook that got you to this altitude has stopped producing. The standard remedy — point it at a bigger target — costs more than it produces now. This is not an argument for a quieter life or a different mountain. It is an argument that the next decade can dwarf the last one, and that the constraint is somewhere you have not been looking.
Why Hitting Your Next Number Never Works | (#088) Beyond Success: Psychology & Philosophy for Achievers, with David Tian, Ph.D.
You set a number for yourself a long time ago. You meant it. You told yourself, when I cross this line, I will know I am ok.
You crossed it. But you do not feel ok.
You are not poor. Not even close. But you still cannot sit still.
There is a story behind the thing that keeps driving you, and that story was handed to you before you were old enough to question it. It told you your worth was something countable. It taught you to measure yourself by your output, and to measure the people you care about by their output. So they measured you back.
This episode walks you through where the story came from, what it has been doing to your nervous system, and why no further amount of money will turn it off.
Why You’ve Lost Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Spark After Success
After a decade or more of hard work, most successful people start to notice that something has gone quiet in them. The work still gets done. The numbers still go up. But the curiosity, the play, the taste that used to feel automatic — none of it is reachable the way it used to be. This essay is about what actually happened to those qualities, why they are not gone, and how the figures whose later work is more interesting than their earlier work got them back.