THE SUCCESS PARADOX Provocative Questions for Top Performers

The Success Paradox: Everything you’ve done to be as successful as you are today is precisely what is holding you back from your next level of success. Many high performers have a life of achieve￾ment but still feel like something is missing, deep down inside. 

Success can be lonely because high performers rarely have anyone in their life to whom they can reveal their complete truth. In the quiet of their mind, these extraordinary leaders experience a range of guilty secrets: 

• “People admire me but I feel lazy.”

• “I have lots of money and recognition but I’m not happy.”

• “I’m bored. I could do this with my eyes closed.” 

• “I’m so good at solving problems I unconsciously create new ones 

just to solve them.”

• “My big mission—that inspires so many people—doesn’t inspire me 

any more.”

• “If I stop working so hard it will all go away.”

• “I’m not lonely but I feel very alone.”

• “I’m exhausted but I won’t accept help.”

The Success Paradox teaches top performers that having the right questions—rather than the answers they are seeking—can catapult their life into the realm of exponential success.