The Pattern Recognizer
The Loyalty Tax: Why You Sabotage Your Success to Stay One of Them
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You finally create real momentum, and then something strange happens: you miss a deadline, start an argument, or let an opportunity slip through your fingers. This is not bad luck. It is the Loyalty Tax — an invisible fee you pay to stay emotionally safe inside the group that raised you. In this episode, Dan Desmarques exposes the psychological roots of this self-sabotage loop: the fear of…