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When peer support groups become performance spaces

Everyone in our startup founder group shares their wins and struggles, but I've started to notice we're all performing a version of being a founder rather than actually being honest about how hard this is or how much we don't know. The mutual support has become mutual performance anxiety.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You all promised to be honest about the struggle, but now you're just performing success for each other.

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