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

Obviously, there's so much more in the book, but from this podcast, the important thing to take away is we can't just think about present in the present moment.

Ironically, we have to think about presence upstream of the moment in trying to design your physical environment and your mental, your psychological environment to allow you to be present.

If you want to be really present to meditate, probably not great to scroll political Twitter for the 20 minutes before you meditate.

Yet we think that presence is just this thing that we turn on, but it's actually a lifestyle that again says, what does it mean for me to be successful?

What does it mean for me to profit?

And how can I then start building a life that allows me to be present for those things?

And for a lot of people, it comes down to identifying the things that distract them, that encroach upon their attention, that are almost like little addictions where it feels good the first little hit that you do, but eventually it makes you feel bad.

and then trying to gradually make those things smaller parts of one's life.

So that's how I think about presence.

So patience is really about this paradox that for most big meaningful projects in life, going slower today helps you go faster tomorrow.

So the principle title in the book is be patient to get there faster.

And

So often we don't correctly define the timeframe for our endeavors.

So if I want to be the best writer or the best coach that I can be, or the best interviewee on podcasts like this for the next month, I would slam four Red Bulls every day and work for 20 hours.

and I'd be great for a month.

I'd get so much done and I'd be on my game.

But what would happen on day 32 or 33 or 34?

I'd totally fall apart.

Whereas if I define excellence, performance, success over a year or a decade or a career, suddenly the way in which I work has to look a lot different.

So it helps to be able to zoom out and ask yourself, all right, I want to quote unquote optimize, or I want to be efficient.

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