Where success becomes a mask—and worth is measured by appearances.
What This Model Teaches
The Performance Model teaches us that our value depends on how impressive, useful, or unbothered we appear. It trains us to hide our pain, perform competence, and equate strength with silence. This model begins early—in families, schools, and workplaces—and rewards emotional suppression over truth.
It is one of the most accepted emotional distortions in society. And one of the most harmful.
Pages in This Model
Introduction to this model and its emotional logic.
How we confuse being valuable with being impressive.
Why emotional suppression is still rewarded as strength.
The false belief that needing no one makes you powerful.
How status is used to silence or dismiss vulnerability.
What happens when we break the rules of the performance.
4.1.6 – “Don’t Make Us Uncomfortable”Navigate
➡️ Go to: 4.2 – The Obedience Model
🔗 Related frameworks: Map Level 1 – The Emotional Gradient Framework
Map Level 7 – How Tyrants Are Made
💬 Reflection
“Have you ever felt invisible when you stopped performing?”This model helps explain why.
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