Brad Stulberg

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1,230 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 31 Mar

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Brad Stulberg: Six Mental Health Principles Entrepreneurs Need to Beat Burnout | Mental Health | YAPClassic · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

And at that point, I'm like, I'm either going to stop doing this kind of work or I need to reconcile that this is a part of me, but I can't hide it.

And a psychiatrist told me that a huge part of peak performance, which was literally the title of my first book, is the ability to play through the pain.

And that really stuck with me.

So I wrote this essay saying, hey, some of you might think that I'm a fraud, I'm a fake, you're never going to want to work with me again.

But this is my experience.

This is what I'm experiencing right now.

And I believe that I can know and coach towards these concepts and struggle myself.

And I was a little bit scared about the response to that essay, of course, but it was so overwhelmingly positive.

And I think that was another aha moment when all these people that I never would have guessed come out of the woodwork emailing me about, oh, me too, or I have bad depression or I've experienced anxiety or, oh, I've never felt like this, but my colleague has.

And you've given me a whole new way to think about it.

And that was, I think, my own experience plus that was the juncture that led me to say that, hey, I've spent enough time exploring the evidence-based principles for when everything is clicking, the top of the metaphorical mountain, now I want to explore the base.

So I wanted to be really broad in this approach, and that's because I wanted to get as close to truth with a capital T. And what I mean by that is principles that I can be confident apply to most people in most situations.

So I thought of the research process as a three-legged stool.

And one leg of that stool was what I'll call modern empirical science.

So what are the findings in peer-reviewed studies?

What are the findings in meta-analyses or studies of studies?

The second leg of that stool is history and ancient wisdom.

So what themes are prevalent across various perennial wisdom traditions, Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism?

What themes have applied at some points of history but not others?

And then the third leg of the stool is daily concrete practicality.

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