Brad Stulberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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And then the book...
helps me make sense of all this.
So at first I'm going through this and I want to intellectualize it and I want to problem solve.
And actually that just makes it worse.
So when I was in the thick of it, the thought of writing it, I would be faking it going through the motions.
Like there was no, I was not in good enough mental health to create any kind of good intellectual work.
When I got to the other side of it, that's when I could look back and examine, hey, here are the things that I've learned in therapy.
Here are maybe some of the things that I've overlooked in the past.
And oh, when I hear so many people that I work with in my coaching practice complaining about being restless or never being able to turn it off or constantly checking their email or social media, I now have this new framework to think about it, which are, sure, these aren't extreme clinical obsessions, but so many of the things in day-to-day life that make us feel restless and anxious are
are very similar in the fact that they're things that we don't want to be thinking about or we don't want to be feeling, but we feel like we get sucked into them and we're not really sure how.
And that became the operating hypothesis on the book.
I think something else to say that's really important is about four to five months, let's see, no, actually it's closer to seven months into experiencing OCD, I decided to write an essay
that went into pretty intense detail about my experience.
And the genesis of that was exactly what you said when we brought up this topic.
To the outside world, I'm like 31-year-old whiz kid coaching world-class athletes and executives in a best-selling book and another one on the way.
But inside, I'm totally falling to pieces.
And the cognitive dissonance that I felt when I get emails from people along the lines of, how'd you figure it out?
Tell me about your path, especially young men.
Like, how did you get to do what you did?
And then I'm feeling like it just that became almost as bad as the OCD itself.
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