Brad Stulberg

So that is beautiful.

And that's likely why you're not experiencing this.

So if you love the work that you're doing, if you love climbing...

then yeah, you want to get to the top of the mountain and it will feel good if you do.

But if you don't, you're going to be like, whatever, I didn't get to the top of that mountain.

Maybe it'll hurt.

Maybe you'll be down for a day or two, but then you'll start climbing again because you genuinely like climbing.

Heroic individualism comes into play when you are so worried about the goal that you cannot any longer enjoy the process of getting there.

And it's like this thing that often creeps in.

Because the path that a lot of people take is you start doing something because it's fun and you like it.

You start a podcast.

You literally, when you start, have zero subscribers.

But you like podcasting.

It sounds like an interesting thing.

And then you get good at it.

And suddenly you get subscribers and you get media coverage and you get people talking about you.

And it's at that point that it gets harder to focus on doing the work itself, to focus on the process of the work, not the outcome, because suddenly you've got all these bright and shiny objects around you that you can chase.

And the job of groundedness is to, if you think of it on one end, you're just chasing the bright and shiny object.

On the other end, you're just focused on the work.

Groundedness tries to keep you closer to the end where you're just focused on the work.