Today we have Brad Stolberg on the podcast. Brad is an internationally known expert on

human performance while being in sustainable success, his co-author of the best-selling

peak performance and the passion paradox. His work has appeared in the New York Times,

Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Wired, Forbes, and more, and he's a

contributing editor to Outside Magazine. In his coaching practice, Brad works

with executives and entrepreneurs on their performance and well-being and he

regularly speaks to large organizations on these topics as well. His latest

book is called The Practice of Groundedness, a transformative path to success that

feeds not crushes your soul. Brad, it's so great to have you back on the

Psychology Podcast. It is always great to be back and to be talking with you

Scott. Thank you for having me. Likewise, it's credible what you've built up and

what you've done and I kind of the niche that you carved out for yourself or

you combine science as well as personal experience and as well as in this new

book you talk about the wisdom of the ages. So you try to integrate, you kind of

try to integrate it all here, don't you? Yeah, you know, I'm very fortunate to be

able to do that. I think what's unique about being in the seat of a writer or a

coach is that I don't have the pressures of an academic to a stay really narrow

in search of something novel and be to publish an academic journals. So it gives

me perhaps a little bit more space to read widely pulled from disparate domains

in a kind of different approach to try to getting to truth with the

capital T. Oh, what is, so what is truth with the capital T? Yeah, I'm glad that

you asked. So truth with the capital T, there are very few things that we know

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