If misery comes bundled with competence, don't accept congratulations as if you signed up for the wiring. Your relentless standards were inherited from generations of overachievers, not selected from a menu. The reframe: stop treating 'I should feel great after winning' as a personal failure, and start treating your success-seeking system as something to debug rather than obey.
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