Success Is None of Your Business

My six-year-old daughter looked at me and asked, “Mom, what can I do where I can win a trophy?”It was wildly convicting because I could hear my own relationship with work inside that question. How often have I made the prize, the proof, or the outcome the whole point?So I went down a rabbit hole to find out what science says actually happens when we make success our business. Turns out, it can make us less creative before we even begin, interfere with skills we already know how to use, and leave us more interested in checking whether the work succeeded than continuing to make it.This episode is about what success quietly costs the work, and the questions that can bring us back to what we actually set out to create.