When Ambition Starts Owning You: How High Achievers Can Reclaim Their Lives

For ambitious owners and entrepreneurs, working hard is usually considered a virtue. But what happens when work becomes so central to your identity that you can't switch it off — even when you're exhausted, on vacation, or spending time with the people who matter most? That's the problem clinical psychologist Dr. Angelica Perez-Litwin has spent more than two decades observing high-achieving…