Brad Stulberg

Back to your games conversation, you're turning a finite game into an infinite game in many ways.

Um, consistency.

So, so important.

So often we're sold in pseudo excellence that you've got to do the monster workout, uh, or you're going to change your life in 30 days or whatever the promises in, in, in, in, in what that sets you up to do is just to go really hard and then to flame out.

Mm.

Or to go really hard and not see the results that you want and then to shift and pursue the next fad.

Whereas just showing up day in and day out, pounding the stone, committing to consistency, so, so important.

I could keep going, but let me do, go ahead.

It's not so much a pushback.

Yeah, pushback.

Yeah, it's short of a pushback.

But I think that a reframe around the book is that, and this kind of gets to the difference between success and excellence.

If your goal is just to get to the top of the mountain and to say you've written a book, then yeah, you wrote the book.

It's done.

It's never going to get denigrated.

But that's very different than saying I'm a writer.

And if you start to identify or make a part of your identity being a writer, then one of every writer's biggest fears is I've written the book and now I'm marketing it and I haven't written anything really deep in four days when I face the blank pages, it's still going to be there.

And to me, that's the same thing as, well, if I don't train, am I still going to be strong?

And the answer is no.

If you don't keep reading, if you don't keep writing, you're not going to be as good of a writer.