Brad Stulberg
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3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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So when I go talk to people that are practicing groundedness out in their lives, that are experiencing a more fulfilling, easeful kind of success, what are they doing?
And I spent about a year, just thousands of note cards laying out all of these findings and themes and boiling down, boiling down, boiling down to eventually these six principles that kept coming up in all three of those areas.
So in the modern science and the ancient wisdom in history and in daily practice of people in the world today.
And the reason I said three-legged stool is if you think about a stool, if it's got three legs, it's sturdy.
You can be confident it's going to hold you.
It's got two legs, it's wobbly.
If it's got one or zero legs, it's not going to work.
And since groundedness is all about like a foundation to hold you, I felt like I really had to be sure that everything in this book has all three legs.
Well, so you defined it from the book.
And I think that the way that I think about it when it becomes problematic is when you're more worried about beating yourself or other people
than you are about the actual effort and your level of presence in the moment.
And this manifests in what I call if-then syndrome.
So if I just get 5,000 subscribers to my newsletter, then I'll be happy.
If I just publish my first book, then I'll be content.
If I just win that NBA championship or that Olympic gold medal, or if I just get that series B round of funding, then I'll feel like I have real self-worth.
And that is an illusion as old as time.
Literally stoicism and Buddhism were both in some ways created to address that illusion.
Modern science, we call this the arrival fallacy.
And it's just that, it's this notion that if I just do this, then I'll arrive.
And I think that heroic individualism often can perpetuate that by telling us that we need to get something out in front of us for ourselves to feel whole.
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