Podcast
The Mel Robbins Podcast
The book explores the negative impact of "grind culture" and "toxic achievement", where people feel like they are not good enough unless they are constantly striving for more and achieving at a high level. The book highlights the importance of feeling like you "matter", which is a core human need and provides strategies for how to build a sense of mattering in yourself and others.
And she said the entire book is about something called grind culture and the way that we are prioritizing what this author calls toxic achievement, how parents have gotten super sucked into it, how we...
— Episode: Never Enough: 7 Ways to Protect Yourself...
Episode: Never Enough: 7 Ways to Protect Yourself (and Your...
The book explores the negative impact of "grind culture" and "toxic achievement", where people feel like they are not good enough unless they are constantly striving for more and achieving at a high level. The book highlights the importance of feeling like you "matter", which is a core human need and provides strategies for how to build a sense of mattering in yourself and others.
And she said the entire book is about something called grind culture and the way that we are prioritizing what this author calls toxic achievement, how parents have gotten super sucked into it, how we've gotten super sucked into it.
And I got a copy of this book, Never Enough. I dug into it, and I just want you to get ready because we're not only going to talk about how you break free from the grind culture and how you can get your life and your peace of mind and your control back.
Grind culture to me is a set of messages that tell us we are only as good as our productivity, our performance, what we make, the grades we get, the college we get into. So it is your worth is contingent upon your performance.
Toxic achievement is running for the next goal because you feel like you are not worthy until you hit that next goal.
So I talk about this in the book that when my oldest was born almost 18 years ago, I thought about going back to graduate school to get a PhD in psychology so that I could be the perfect parent with the latest research.