If you're reading Asylum in the middle of the day instead of working then you're probably an over-achiever, just like us.

If so then you know that a successful life is also a hard life. Constantly winning and leaving your friends in the dust can leave you disorientated, and without focus. In the end, winning at everything can be the greatest defeat at all.

Comedian Demetri Martin knows your pain. He too was once like us -- but he found a way out.

Okay actually he didn't, but he made a great stand-up show about it.

Watch episodes one and two of his five-part story below and learn what it takes to pull back from the brink of achievement mania.

Part One



Part 2