Brad Stulberg: Ditch The Hedonic Treadmill For Sustainable Success

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Ambition is laudable. But hustle culture extracts a cost. True, sustainable success demands groundedness. Here today to elaborate is Brad Stulberg—a writer and coach specializing in human performance and well-being. Returning for his third appearance (you can check out episodes #293 & #429). Brad is the author of three books: Peak Performance, The Passion Paradox, and his latest, the subject of today’s exchange, The Practice of Groundedness. His work has appeared in the NYT, WSJ, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Forbes, GQ, TIME, & Outside. He is the co-founder of The Growth Equation newsletter & podcast alongside elite track & field coach Steve Magness. This is a conversation about striving–not out of compulsion–but from a place of wholeness and love. It’s a state of mind and action Brad calls groundedness. In addition, we discuss in great detail the principles upon which to build sustainable success and a life grounded in meaning and fulfillment. Trigger Warning: We discuss a few intense mental health topics including suicidal ideation—in fairly graphic detail. So sensitive viewers please be advised. This conversation is overflowing with evidence-and-experience-based, practical, and actionable life counsel. You can also watch the magic transpire on YouTube. As always, the podcast streams free on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Pick up Rich’s lates book VOICING CHANGE Vol. II HERE. For full show notes and to read more about Terry, go HERE. Enjoy the show! Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm super proud to announce the publication of Voicing Change Volume 2.
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0:13.1	essays, conversation excerpts, and beautiful photography inspired by 64 of my favorite
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0:21.3	All books are hand signed and we're shipping globally, so to learn more and pick up your
0:26.1	copy visit richroll.com, supply is limited, so act today.
0:31.8	Alright, let's do the show.
0:35.8	Everything in the culture tells us not to accept reality, you know, you don't feel good,
0:40.6	there's a substance for that, you can go buy some stuff, you can tweet, you can post.
0:44.8	But of course, if you can't accept where you are, then you're never going to get where
0:48.7	you want to go.
0:49.7	I don't think that you can truly be strong unless you are vulnerable.
0:55.4	Interability should very rarely feel good in the moment, especially if it's with other
0:59.8	people.
1:00.8	Like that for me is the barometer.
1:02.5	If you are doing vulnerability is a means to an end or like you're scheming, then you're
1:08.2	probably actually doing yourself more harm than good.
1:11.3	For people like you and I, I think it's so important that when you pick a goal, the
1:15.0	steps that you have to get there should involve building community.
1:19.5	So like you bake it into your work, but try to make more and more things a team game
1:25.0	or a game of relationships or where you're building a community as a part of this pursuit
1:30.1	that you have in life as a practice.
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