The Practice of Groundedness Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Achievement often comes at a cost. Angst, restlessness, frayed relationships, exhaustion, and even substance abuse can be the unwanted side effects of an obsession with outward performance. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness, author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Saturday, August 27th, and it's basically the summer author series. We are re-airing interviews that we have conducted in the past with some of our favorite authors and interviewees. Today we're talking to Brad Stulberg. He is the author of The Practice of Groundedness, |
| 0:24.5 | a transformative path to success that feeds, not crushes, your soul. Now, we've talked so much |
| 0:31.4 | about the things that do feed your soul. So I found this interview even better on the second |
| 0:36.8 | listen because so much has happened |
| 0:39.4 | since the time we actually talked to Brad. And I think this is a really evocative two-day interview. |
| 0:45.4 | And I think it's a great way to use the sort of late summer season to provoke you into thinking |
| 0:52.1 | about how to improve your own lives. And sometimes you need a little |
| 0:56.9 | money help to make that happen. But the first thing you need to do is to just think about this. |
| 1:02.5 | So we start our interview by talking about Brad's previous book. You'll hear about that. |
| 1:07.7 | Tell me first about peak performance and what that book was about. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm glad that you started here because I basically had to write my books in reverse to get |
| 1:20.7 | to the practice of groundedness, which is the new book. And here's why. So peak performance |
| 1:26.5 | is everything is clicking. You're on top of your |
| 1:31.1 | game. And there is so much BS nonsense. I like to call it bro science out there. When it comes to |
| 1:40.2 | peak performance. Hacks. Optim optimize your life, 10 supplements to become |
| 1:45.9 | Superman or superwoman in 10 days, on and on and on. And the goal with peak performance was to |
| 1:51.9 | provide an evidence-based approach to what to do when you're on top of the mountain, and ideally |
| 1:57.9 | how to stay there. When everything is clicking, peak performance |
| 2:01.6 | makes total sense. I completely stand by the work in that book. It's bulletproof. It's defensible. |
| 2:06.6 | I wrote that book when I was younger. Then I had an event in my life that really shook the base of the |
| 2:13.0 | mountain from underneath me. And I realized that while those principles are great for when everything is |
| 2:18.5 | clicking, if the top of the mountain, and obviously we're talking in metaphor here, the top of your |
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