When Competency Becomes a Cage

from Welcome to Your Life · host John Alan Turner

For capable people, strength can quietly turn into compulsion. This episode examines overfunctioning as a learned survival strategy, how it exhausts relationships and systems, and why stepping back is sometimes the most responsible thing a leader can do.

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