Chasing Excellence

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Beyond the Leaderboard

Daily Chase #108

Oct 01, 2025
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Your ego loves a good leaderboard. It craves the validation of seeing your name above others, the rush of external recognition, the proof that you matter.

But here’s what thousands of years of evolution didn’t prepare us for: that same drive that once meant survival now often just leads to emptiness.

For millennia, clim…

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