What if it's still not enough? Achievement Addiction, Human Performance & Finding Meaning with Dr. Jack Groppel

What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted and discover it still doesn’t feel like enough? Dr. Jack Groppel is a pioneering sports scientist and co-founder of the Human Performance Institute whose work reveals a powerful truth: peak performance and a meaningful life are not necessarily the same thing. In this conversation, Jack and Lisa explore how achievement can become addictive, why our need for approval can hide underneath ambition, and what decades of studying elite human performance taught him about energy, recovery, and fulfillment. Jack also shares how adopting his son and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro together ultimately forced him to reconsider his definitions of strength, fatherhood, success, and what matters most. In this episode: Human performance and sports science Achievement addiction and overachievement The need for approval and people pleasing Burnout, energy management, and recovery Fatherhood and adoption Leadership and high performance Purpose, meaning, and fulfillment Mount Kilimanjaro and Mountains Within Redefining success Learn more about Dr. Jack Groppel and Mountains Within: https://jackgroppel.net Explore more from Lisa Lacy Inside the Edge: Inside The Edge — Lisa Lacy What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the Edge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.