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Why Top Performers Break Down, Before They Break Through with Jon Giganti

Companion to the MaxLife episode with Jon Giganti

Former sales leader Jon Giganti found that high performers who looked great on paper were quietly breaking, and that naming the hidden struggle, not hiding it, is what unlocked them.

▶ Watch the full episode with Jon Giganti for deeper context on how to approach these questions
01

The Thing You Don't Say

On paper you're doing fine, maybe great. But what's the struggle you're carrying right now that you haven't said out loud to anyone?

02

Garbage You Haven't Taken Out

Giganti says feelings you never release just fester, like trash you keep reloading. What's an old hurt or fear you've kept stuffed down, and where do you feel it leaking out, your sleep, your temper, your body?

03

Strength, Not Weakness

He says opening up isn't weakness, it's strength in truth, and it builds trust nobody can fake. Who is one person you could tell the truth to, and what's the one true sentence you'd start with?

The person I could be honest with is ___, and I'd start by saying ___.
04

Serve Your Former Self

Giganti says we're best in service to our former selves. Think of yourself a few years back, in the middle of the hard thing you survived. What does that version of you most wish someone had said?

05

Pass The Ripple

Someone in your world right now is quietly going through a version of what you already came through. Who is it, and what's the one honest thing about your own struggle you could share to give them permission?

Giganti's line is that we are best in service to our former selves. The struggle you're most tempted to bury is the exact thing someone a few steps behind you needs to hear out loud. Read back your answers. The truth you almost didn't write down is probably the one with the most strength in it.
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