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Arthur Ciarmicoli:
You know there used to be a time when self-growth meant spiritual growth. In our world today growing means achieving and perfecting. And if you're always focused on perfecting yourself you can't live within your own skin with comfort.

Dr. Arthur Ciarmicoli, author of the book, Performance Addiction says those people are never comfortable in their own skin because they're always in pursuit of perfection.

They're so afraid that if they're not performing that somebody else is getting ahead. They don't realize that when you relax the brain and when you relax your physiology and your immune system you perform longer and at higher quality.

And that has been proven over and over again…

The people that are spending fourteen, sixteen hours at work, I mean it's been proven, the last 4 or 5 hours at work, if you were rested and you had a more balanced life you could do that work in a half an hour the next day. So, when you're performing all the time you release stress hormones and your brain doesn't function as well. You become a very narrow thinker and you don't see all the variables you need to solve problems.

So, how do you break out of performance addiction?

If you can start just by taking out some time to exercise and pay a little bit more attention to your nutrition, take a half hour off your workday and focus on the relationships in your life. I think you're going to notice that you're probably going to sleep better and the next day your performance; the quality of your performance will probably increase.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.