Burnout: The Cost of Blind Spots in High Performance
Burnout doesn't announce itself. It doesn't knock on your door and warn you it's coming.
It builds in the blind spots.
The patterns you can't see. The habits that feel like discipline. The beliefs that masquerade as drive. They accumulate quietly—one ignored signal at a time, one boundary crossed, one "I'm fine" repeated until you believe it.
And then one day, it all comes due.
That's exactly how it happened to me.
I had the frameworks. The plans. The tools. The results. I was helping organizations accelerate execution—and it worked. Until it didn't.
What failed was the assumption that performance could be sustained without ever examining the invisible forces driving it. The blind spots I couldn't see because I was too busy succeeding to notice them quietly eroding the foundation.
The crash felt sudden. It wasn't.
It was the Denial Tax finally coming due—years of accumulated stress, unprocessed pressure, and biased thinking I'd mistaken for strength. My body had been keeping score long before my mind caught up.
I learned the hard way that you can't outrun patterns you refuse to see.
The Framework: The 10 Blind Spots That Lead to Burnout
hat insight led me to write my book and formalize a framework:
The 10 Blind Spots that Lead to Burnout.
Each blind spot represents a recurring pattern I’ve observed in executives and leadership teams:
- Ways of thinking that once drove success but now quietly undermine it
- Tradeoffs that feel rational in isolation but compound over time
- Habits that optimize short-term performance at the expense of sustainability
The power of the framework isn’t in labeling people—it’s in making the invisible visible.
Once leaders can see the blind spots at play, they regain choice.
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