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Are You an Overachiever, or a High Performer?

Are You an Overachiever, or a High Performer?
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Jingduan Yang
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In our success-oriented society, many overachievers proudly wear their accomplishments—their job title, awards, and performance-based bonuses—like badges of honor.
If anyone asks, they can easily cite extra hours worked, bigger caseloads than others, fewer holidays, and how busy they are, to prove why they are deserving of their success.
Jingduan Yang
Jingduan Yang
M.D.
Dr. Jingduan Yang is a board-certified psychiatrist and fifth-generation classical Chinese medicine physician whose work bridges Western psychiatry, functional medicine, and ancient healing traditions. He is the creator of the ACES Model of Health and Medicine—a four-dimensional framework spanning anatomy, chemistry, energy, and spirit—and the author of “Facing East” and “Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine.” As a principal founder of the Northern School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he advances whole-person care grounded in science, ethics, and humanity.
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