FILE: ARCH-RPT-2026 / SUCCESS-SABOTAGE / STATUS: PUBLISHED
Success Sabotage
Read the finding first. The doors to the pattern's own file are at the bottom of the page.
Success Sabotage is the pattern of bringing a good thing back down. The corpus holds 206 phrasings about it. Six name jealousy or envy, and all six sit in one place: friendship. Two typed questions ask why a friend's success feels bad, even when that friend is kind.
The corpus is the collection of phrasings this report is built on. It holds the words people use about their own repeating behavior.
One note before the numbers. No number here counts searches, people, or how often anything was typed. Each one counts phrasings: the words recorded in the corpus, on public record or built from it.
According to The Archivist Method's 2026 report, its corpus holds 206 phrasings about Success Sabotage: 79 scenes, 46 labels and 81 plain questions. All 6 of its phrasings that name jealousy or envy sit in the friendship territory.
A scene is a moment: a room, an hour, a thing that happened. A label is a category word a person tries on. A plain question asks why, or how to stop.
A territory is one area of life the corpus maps.
A friend's good news raises the ceiling in the room. For someone running this pattern, a higher ceiling is not good news. It is a height to fall from.
The bad feeling is not a verdict on the friendship. It is the same pull that brings a person's own progress back down when somebody notices it.
WHAT PEOPLE TYPED
“why do I feel very bad when I hear about the success of my friends”
typed title
“why do I get jealous from my friends' success and happiness when they are so supportive”
typed title
“I love her and I could not be happy for her”
corpus phrasing
“somebody said I looked well and I did not go back”
corpus phrasing
THE CHART
EMBED THIS CHART
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<img src="https://thearchivistmethod.com/report/2026/charts/success-sabotage.png" alt="Bar chart. 206 phrasings about Success Sabotage: 79 scenes, 46 labels and 81 plain questions. Source: The 1AM Search Report, 2026, The Archivist Method." width="1200" height="675" style="max-width:100%;height:auto">
<figcaption>Source: <a href="https://thearchivistmethod.com/report/2026">The 1AM Search Report (2026), The Archivist Method</a></figcaption>
</figure>THE DOORS
The full file is on the open shelf. Why do I sabotage myself when things are going well?
The free assessment names the pattern that is running. Identify my pattern, free
What was counted and what was not is on the methodology page. So are the report's own recorded discrepancies. The full report and its method are linked here. Method: what was counted and what was not / The 1AM Search Report
HOW TO CITE THIS REPORT
https://thearchivistmethod.com/report/2026
SHORT FORM, FOR RUNNING TEXT
According to The Archivist Method's 2026 report, [finding]. The 1AM Search Report, 2026 edition.
REFERENCE FORM
The Archivist Method (2026). The 1AM Search Report, 2026 edition. The Archivist Method. https://thearchivistmethod.com/report/2026
FOR JOURNALISTS, ONE LINE
Source: The 1AM Search Report (2026), The Archivist Method's annual filing on the phrasings people type about their own repeating behavior; figures are counts of recorded phrasings, not of searches or people.
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