The Practice of Groundedness Part Two
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 16 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 Sunday, August 28th. And in today's second part of our |
| 0:09.9 | interview with Brad Stolberg, the author of The Practice of Groundedness, we are trying to think about |
| 0:16.4 | how to bring our generations together. I'm kind of getting sick of this whole trope around, you know, |
| 0:22.2 | this is what this generation is like and this is what this generation is like. I just don't think |
| 0:26.7 | it helps anybody. So maybe it's just about all of us coming together and saying we want more grounded |
| 0:32.6 | lives. We want to make sure that we are all doing things that make us feel connected to the larger |
| 0:39.2 | organization for whom we work, or maybe it's just your individual contribution to a larger |
| 0:45.0 | effort, but let's stop doing this whole generation thing. I don't know. I think that we can |
| 0:49.2 | probably try to do a better job with that. Anyway, here is the second part of our interview with |
| 0:55.0 | Brad Stolberg. I'm wondering this idea of, you know, nourishing your roots, which I really do love, |
| 1:02.1 | how can I best, as an old fart, who's gone through these like ups and downs and lots of downs, |
| 1:07.6 | certainly professionally and in life and relationships. How can I explain |
| 1:12.9 | this focus on your roots in a way that, you know, a 30-year-old can hear it? Or even middle-aged |
| 1:20.1 | who are trying to find the groundedness besides obviously giving them your book. But talking |
| 1:25.9 | about it with them, what is it that people need |
| 1:27.9 | to think about? Yeah, and there's one more age group too. And you know, you strike me as the |
| 1:33.0 | kind of person that loves your craft. You're clearly good at it. I'm not just trying to butter |
| 1:37.3 | you up. You'll probably work till you die. A lot of people, when they retire, they run into the same |
| 1:42.4 | problem that the 30-year-old runs into, |
| 1:50.8 | which is like, who am I? I feel unmoored. Anyways, to answer your question, if you think about a big old redwood tree, I grew up, well, I didn't grow up, I grew up in suburban Detroit, |
| 1:56.5 | but I feel like I grew up in the Bay Area because I spent my young adulthood. I spent a lot of |
| 2:00.6 | time in the Bay Area. I lived there for adulthood. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. |
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