Brad Stulberg

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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

So if you're like in this state of anger or resentment, well,

you have to let yourself calm down first, because if you're angry, you're gonna give your friend an advice that would say, yeah, go punch her in the face or go punch him in the face.

Whereas if you can try to come at it a little bit more mutually, then again, you can be a little bit wiser.

And in the book I write about all these decisions that people end up regretting tend to be like heat of the moment decisions, right?

The one that is the most commonly discussed is like extramarital affairs.

And the reason that we make poor choices in those situations is because in that moment, you're just completely overwhelmed by passion, by feeling.

So whatever advice you're gonna give to your friend, you don't even have, your brain can't even turn on.

And it's about, again, creating that space to then let your brain turn on and make a wiser decision.

And that's where meditation is so effective because you strengthen that muscle.

So a lifelong meditator is going to have a much easier time creating space in the moment than someone that's never done it before.

I think the first is just the mindset shift that you're never going to get better unless you start with acceptance.

So it's the first principle of Buddhism is acceptance.

In many ways, it's suffering exists, which is accept suffering.

Stoicism teaches us that we have to be able to see our situation clearly to do anything about it.

All the more recent evidence-based programs for behavioral change all start with acceptance.

So I think a lot of people can tell themselves a story that if I just pretend it's not so, it won't be.

And what I'm here to tell you is that the research says that eventually you're going to hit bottom and you might as well realize it now than wait six months to hit bottom and then do something about it.

And the last strategy that is perhaps the most powerful is to have people in your life that you love and trust that can say, like, you're seeing things wrong.

You're delusional right now.

And then you actually have to listen to those people.

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