Brad Stulberg

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Something You Should Know · Why You Click With Some People & How to Pursue Anything with Excellence · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

All this today on Something You Should Know.

Thanks for having me.

I think that there is a lot of confusion between what I call pseudo excellence and actual excellence.

So pseudo excellence is so much of what you see on social media where folks think that they need to be perfect at everything.

They need to wake up at four in the morning.

They need to have a 37 step routine and a super restrictive diet and take a cold plunge four times a day and on and on and on.

And the question there is, what's it all for?

What's the 37 step routine serving?

What's the cold plunge doing?

Are you just doing hard things for the sake of doing hard things?

That to me is pseudo excellence.

I think genuine excellence

is, again, when the mountain that you're climbing is one that you chose because it aligns with your values, and it's one that you genuinely want to climb.

And the reason that I think that, yes, this is for everyone, it's not just for elite athletes or master chefs or Grammy-winning musicians, is because so many people that I spoke with in the reporting process said that they have a sense of longing in their lives and kind of a sense of going through the motions and almost numbness.

And when you pursue excellence, when you are serious about an activity, when that activity becomes a craft, one of the greatest rewards that you'll ever get from it, more than any medal or any income or any promotion, is a sense of satisfaction that you've gained skill and you've gained competence.

I think that the answer here is it depends.

Some of us are really fortunate to have a livelihood that very much aligns with our values, where we can pursue excellence and mastery in our work.

Some of us don't, and that's totally okay.

I think another big misconception is that excellence is just a pursuit that is professional.

So if you don't like your job, well, then you're never going to have an opportunity to have excellence in your life, especially in America.

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