Driven By Fire Syndrome: How High-Powered Humans Turn Pressure into Fuel
You don't fall apart under pressure.
You perform under it.
If your mind never shuts off, your productivity spikes when things get intense, and rest feels strangely uncomfortable, you're not broken-you're fire-wired.
Driven-by-Fire Syndrome puts language to a familiar modern experience often labeled high-functioning anxiety: the internal engine that turns pressure into momentum and keeps capable, driven people moving long after they're exhausted. From the outside, it looks like success. On the inside, it feels like constant readiness-always anticipating, always managing, always pushing.
This book isn't about slowing you down or fixing what's "wrong" with you. It's about understanding your wiring and learning how to use it without burning yourself out.
Inside, you'll discover:
Why high-performers often thrive in chaos but struggle in calm
How your brain learned to convert stress into productivity
The hidden costs of being "the reliable one"
How to recognize burnout before it forces a shutdown
Practical ways to rest, reset, and regulate-without losing your edge
Psychologists call it high-functioning anxiety.
This book calls it Driven-by-Fire Syndrome-because that's what it feels like.
Through insight, humor, and straight-talk strategies, you'll learn how to work with your intensity instead of fighting it, how to deploy your drive strategically instead of constantly, and how to build a life that supports your fire instead of draining it.
You don't need to be less driven.
You need to be more intentional.
If you're tired of being tired-but not ready to be less ambitious-this book is the manual you were never given.
Your fire isn't the problem.
Running it without a plan is.
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