Silicon Valley Veteran: “Why Buddhist Monks Won't Get Us to Mars”
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Andy Johns discusses the hidden costs of high performance and the impact of childhood trauma and workaholism on mental health.
Andy Johns helped build some of the most important growth engines in Silicon Valley. Facebook. Twitter. Quora. Wealthfront. He worked across nine billion-dollar companies, became one of the most respected growth leaders in tech, and reached the level of career success most founders dream about. Then he walked away. Because achievement had stopped working. In this episode, Andy joins Lloyed Lobo on Traction to unpack the hidden cost of high performance. We talk about burnout, workaholism, childhood trauma, addiction, therapy, spiritual awakening, and the identity crash that hits when the thing that made you successful starts destroying you. Andy shares why he left a seven-figure VC career, how he rebuilt his life through deep inner work, and why so many founders are running from pain under the cover of ambition. This is not a conversation about hacks. It is a conversation about truth. You will learn: Why external success can mask deep internal suffering How childhood trauma can drive achievement addiction Why workaholism is often socially rewarded self-abandonment How to know when enough is enough What burnout feels like before it becomes a collapse Why therapy, writing…
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