Ep. 47: BRAD STULBERG on Burn Out, Career Transformation, and Intentional Living

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Education, Technology, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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In this episode of DEEP QUESTIONS we're joined by a guest host: Brad Stulberg.Brad is a bestselling writer who focuses on human performance. He's known for his books PEAK PERFORMANCE and THE PASSION PARADOX, as well as for his popular "Do It Better" column for Outside Magazine.We go deep on Brad's story, using it to illustrate timeless points on burnout, recovery, transformation, and intentional living. We also talk about the unexpected television commercial that helped vault his first book to success and, of course, answer your questions.You can find out more about Brad at https://www.bradstulberg.com/To submit your own questions for this podcast, sign up for my mailing list at calnewport.com.Thank you to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show where I answer queries for my readers
0:18.0	about work, technology, and the deep life.
0:28.0	In today's podcast we will be joined by a special guest, Brad Stolberg.
0:30.0	Brad is a writer who focuses on human performance.
0:36.8	He draws from a lot of different sources
0:39.2	from many different fields of science in his work.
0:41.8	He also draws from philosophical and spiritual systems, a very thoughtful
0:45.7	writer who deals with many of the topics we talk about here on the Deep Questions Podcast with a real sense of depth and
0:55.3	originality that I've always admired. Now Brad writes for publications such as
1:01.9	the New York Times, Wired New York magazine, Forbes Sports Illustrated.
1:06.0	He writes the Do It Better column for Outside magazine.
1:10.0	If the name sounds familiar, it is probably from the books that he co-authored with Steve Magnus.
1:17.0	That includes Peak Performance, which I have to say is an underground classic in the world of practical nonfiction and also the passion paradox.
1:27.0	A book he wrote basically simultaneously with my book so good they can't ignore you and dealing with a similar premise to
1:34.6	role a passion and career satisfaction but he comes at it from a completely
1:38.9	different direction and comes up with some really interesting ideas. I love that book and peak performance quite a bit.
1:45.6	He now also hosts along with Steve the Growth Equation Podcast. I was a guest on this podcast about six months ago.
1:55.0	So go back six month ago and you can start listening to the podcast with that episode with me.
2:01.0	It's almost like this episode today is round two of my discussion with
2:05.7	Brad though the reality is it's really like round 22 as Brad and I we talk
2:11.9	quite a bit offline and we have a habit of going on longer than we
2:17.0	always originally planned in our conversations which I think is a good sign.
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