We’ve all been told that if we just work harder, we’ll get ahead. More discipline. More grit. More hours. But the truth is simpler and more confronting. High performance isn’t built on effort. It’s built on awareness. Even more confronting, with more awareness comes more stress, until you learn how to work with what you begin to see. You can be the most disciplined, relentless person in the room and still feel stuck. Still feel strained. Still feel like something isn’t clicki