Brad Stulberg

These aren't things that you necessarily see when you look at someone.

But if you internally take care of patience, acceptance, presence, vulnerability, community, movement, it helps you stand strong throughout all that weather.

The second thing that's so beautiful about redwood trees is their roots only run six to 12 feet deep.

So the tree, 300 feet high, the root structure, quite shallow.

And I'm like, I literally, like asking the park ranger, I'm like, well, wait a minute, how do the trees hold to the ground?

And she said, it's because the roots intertwine with the roots of all the other trees in the park.

So they're a system of roots that are all holding each other up throughout all kinds of weather.

And man, if that's not beautiful and that's not what we ought to strive for is like taking care of our own root system, but also doing it with others so that we can help hold each other up, then I don't know what's the point of any of it.

So that really became the overarching metaphor for the book and for how I try to live my life.

I think define profiting.

So what does it mean for you to be profiting?

What are those values?

Is it a certain amount of money?

Is it a certain amount of autonomy?

Is it living in a certain geography?

Is it starting a family?

Is it staying single and curious so that you can explore?

The point is there's not a right or wrong.

What's wrong is not taking the time to regularly step back and be able to define what profiting means for you.

Because how you define that will then dictate the actions that follow.