Episode 94: How to Avoid the Dark Side of Passion and Build a Sustainable Running Obsession
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brad Stulberg is a polymath whose first book with coach Steve Magness, Peak Performance, was one of my favorite reads from 2018.
His work focuses on helping athletes, business executives, and other top performers improve their chances of success by work on:
- Defining a path for long-term progression
- Mental toughness
- Developing sustainable motivation and purpose
- How to get into a deep-focus "flow" state
- Building resilience
- Development of optimal routines
His latest book is also coauthored by Steve Magness, titled The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life.
In this conversation, we spend time focusing on the nuances of passion, obsession, and building interest in things that we like.
His book is a defense of passion. It's a more nuanced, effective perspective on passion that acknowledges that it's hard to find, that it must be cultivated, and that too much of it can indeed be a bad thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set go. |
| 0:04.7 | This is episode 94 with best-selling author, high performance coach, and one of my personal mentors, |
| 0:10.1 | Mr. Brad Stahlberg. Well, hello hello, hello everyone. Thanks for joining me again for another illuminating |
| 0:24.8 | conversation about improving our running and getting more out of this wonderful sport. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm recording this on a sunny Friday afternoon. My legs are so little sore from a long run I did this |
| 0:35.0 | morning and I'm feeling good. I'm getting back in a better shape over the last couple |
| 0:39.9 | months to prepare for a trail race that I have in early June and things are going |
| 0:45.0 | pretty well I'm feeling good I'm starting to feel better on some of those more |
| 0:49.0 | challenging workouts and long runs and I recently joined Strava if you want to connect with me there, feel free to find me. |
| 0:55.8 | And I found that the accountability of knowing my workouts will have an audience is pretty powerful |
| 1:02.4 | and it's really helping my consistency. So something |
| 1:05.1 | to noodle on if you struggle with staying consistent. Okay, let's talk about our guest today, |
| 1:11.2 | my man Brad Stolberg. Now in the intro I called him one of my |
| 1:15.6 | personal mentors but you know this isn't a formal relationship that we have |
| 1:20.0 | instead it's just a recognition that I respect Brad's work. |
| 1:24.0 | It's made a really big impact on me personally, |
| 1:27.0 | and I'll basically read anything he writes |
| 1:30.0 | because I found someone who really understands the concepts of performance and has a really productive |
| 1:35.7 | perspective I think on wellness and health and how to get the most out of yourself and I hope you |
| 1:41.6 | recognize Brad's expertise as well. |
| 1:44.7 | He's the co-author of two books that I absolutely love. |
| 1:48.2 | Peak performance, elevate your game, avoid burnout, and thrive with the new science of success and his latest book |
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