Brad Stulberg
Writer and coach on performance, well-being and excellence; author of The Way of Excellence, Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness, co-author of Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox, and writes The Growth Equation.
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Their wordsPeople think intensity drives progress, but it’s much more about consistency. It’s not about hitting home runs, but stepping into the arena and putting the ball in play. It’s about being there over and over again.
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Their wordsThere’s this myth that you need to feel good to get going, that you need to be super inspired and super motivated all the time. But more often than not, in reality, what you need is to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.
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Their wordsWe are hardwired for the feeling that accompanies giving our all to something we care about it. We feel it ourselves, and we feel it when we observe excellence in others.
↗The US Open, Human Excellence, and What AI and Machines Will Never Replacethegrowtheq.com
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Their wordsI like to think about having minimum effective doses for each of the important parts of my identity: family, craft, fitness, and friends. This means when I’m focused predominantly on one of those things, I still make sure to spend enough time and energy on the others so as not to leave them completely behind.
↗Stop Trying to Be Balanced and Live Life in Seasons Insteadthegrowtheq.com
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Their wordsWhen you look at the highest performers and most satisfied people and zoom in on any one moment of their life, they don’t look very balanced. They are almost always going full steam on one, or maybe two, things. But when you zoom out and look across their entire life, they actually start to appear quite balanced. Their balance is sequential, not simultaneous.
↗Stop Trying to Be Balanced and Live Life in Seasons Insteadthegrowtheq.com
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Their wordsHustle-culture grindslop makes you think that if you’re not miserable or bordering on burnout, you’re not working hard enough. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.
↗That You Must Suffer for Greatness is a Dangerous Liethegrowtheq.com
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Their wordsGreatness doesn’t mean everything will always be lovely, or that en route to attaining your potential is a whole lot of hand-holding and singing kumbaya. Sometimes there will be legitimate pain. But if everything is always painful, if the pain is the dominant quality of your experience, then you are doing it wrong.
↗That You Must Suffer for Greatness is a Dangerous Liethegrowtheq.com