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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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Why Success Feels Empty After You’ve “Made It”: What Aristotle Saw About Eudaimonia
What if the hollow after the exit was always going to happen — not a personal failure but a model failing right on schedule? Aristotle’s word for what this smart, driven person was actually after — eudaimonia, the activity of a life lived well, seen as a whole — names the diagnosis the post-exit founder did not know he needed. He has been pursuing, with extraordinary discipline, the wrong target.
The Parts of You That Cannot Love | (#086) Beyond Success: Psychology & Philosophy for Achievers, with David Tian
Every high achiever I’ve worked with says he wants deeper connection. Almost none of them understand what it actually costs.
In this episode, I show you the one move most achievers unconsciously resist making. The move that changes how every close relationship in their life works — their oldest friends, the family they came from, the family they have not yet built, and the one they have with themselves.
The Achiever’s Paradox: Wu Wei, Flow, and What Mencius and Wang Yangming Knew About Effortless Action
What if the strength that built the company is the obstacle to the next phase of life? The ancient Chinese philosophers had a name for the state most worth wanting — wu wei, effortless action — and noticed it can’t be reached by harder effort. Mencius saw the problem twenty-three centuries ago. Wang Yangming, sixteen hundred years later, identified the reason most of us are stuck even after we see it.