Brad Stulberg

Yeah, I'm Brad, and I wear three primary hats.

The first hat that I wear is the Detroit Tigers.

I guess I wear four primary hats.

A Detroit Tiger fan is the first hat that I wear, actually wearing the hat, start of the season.

The second hat I wear is as an author, a writer, where I'm really interesting in exploring applied philosophy and human flourishing.

The, I guess now I'm wearing four because the tiger's hat.

The third hat that I wear is a coach.

So I work with athletes, physicians, entrepreneurs on their mental skills.

And then I'm also on faculty at the University of Michigan where I lecture in their graduate school of public health on leadership and self-coaching.

Alienation is a sense of remove that we feel from each other and in some instances from ourselves, from our own lives.

It is a sense of distance and separation between us and what we're doing.

And we don't realize how alienated we've become in essentially all domains.

I want to tell the story that I had an experience when I was working on the book.

And it was a super busy day.

It was a weekend.

I was shuttling my kids from sports to dance to soccer to basketball.

And we finally got to the gas station.

and the tank was almost on empty.

And I get out of the car and I'm so relieved, the kids are in the car, that I have two minutes to myself while I fill up the gas station just to be with myself and to think my own thoughts.

And 10 seconds into pumping the gas with car, a woman interrupts me on the screen who is literally telling me everything is figureoutable.