415: Pursuing Your Passion the Smart Way with Brad Stulberg

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Brad Stulberg explores the inherent contradiction between pursuing passion and balance...and what to do about it. You'll Learn: The three common paradoxes of passion The dangers of rooting your identity to a passion Why self-aware imbalance is often appropriate About Brad: Brad Stulberg researches, writes, speaks, and coaches on health and human performance. His coaching practice includes working with athletes, entrepreneurs, and executives on their mental skills and overall well-being. He is a bestselling author of the books The Passion Paradox and Peak Performance and a columnist at Outside Magazine. Brad has also written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Forbes, and The Los Angeles Times. Previously, Stulberg worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Company, where he counseled some of the world's top executives on a broad range of issues. An avid athlete and outdoor enthusiast, Stulberg lives in Northern California with his wife, son, and two cats. Follow him on Twitter @Bstulberg. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep415 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 415.
0:21.7	We got Brad Stolberg back and he is bringing a whole lot more
0:25.0	insight this time talking about passion and balance and how do you deal with that.
0:30.3	You'll learn one the three common paradoxes of passion to the dangers of
0:34.3	rooting your identity to a passion and three why self-aware imbalance is often a
0:39.1	perfectly acceptable choice so if you want to check out the show notes or the
0:42.4	transcript or the links to
0:43.2	Adams we've referenced it's over at awesome at your job.com slash F-4-15.
0:47.0	Now here's Brad's story. Brad Stillberg researches, rights, speaks, and coaches on
0:51.0	health and human performance. His coaching practice includes
0:53.8	working with athletes, entrepreneurs and executives on their mental skills and overall well-being.
0:57.8	He's a best-selling author of the books The Passion Paradox and Peak Performance in a columnist
1:02.4	at Outside magazine.
1:03.6	Brad's also written for New York Times, New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Forbes,
1:07.6	and the Los Angeles Times.
1:08.8	Previously, Stobrig worked as a consultant for McKinseye Company,
1:11.6	where he counseled some of the world's top executives
1:13.8	on a broad range of issues.
1:15.4	He's an avid athlete now to our enthusiast living in North Carolina with his wife, son, and two cats.
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