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

and then i think the third factor that is really important is consistency so it's less about a commitment to intensity and it's more about a commitment to consistency and to showing up again and again over time and as you do that the relationship that you forge not only with your activity but also with yourself becomes that intrinsic reward that keeps you coming back but don't you ever have days where you just go through the motions that i just don't have it today and it's okay

Oh, absolutely.

To deny that is really to deny our humanity.

We're not optimized robots.

We're people doing the best we can in a chaotic world.

I think there, the practice becomes, how do you try to stop a bad day from becoming a bad week?

And then when you have a bad week, how do you try to stop a bad week from becoming a bad month?

There's this concept that I think is so important, and it's called raising the floor.

And oftentimes we think about, well, how can we make our great days better, right?

We all index on our best days.

But the truth is we don't often control when our best days are going to happen.

For all that we know about human performance, there's a lot of magic to it.

but what we don't think about nearly as much as our bad days and how can we make our bad days just a little bit better or as i was saying earlier how can we ensure that one bad day doesn't ruin the rest of our week um and i think that all that is part of the practice too so yes it's a long-winded answer to your original question we are absolutely going to have bad days everyone does but then the practice becomes well how can you get curious about why you had that bad day and how can you try to short circuit it from ruining the rest of your week

I think it's just about being in the moment, acknowledging that, all right, it's just not there today.

So in the moment, what you can do is you can tell yourself, all right, I'm acknowledging that it's just not there today.

I don't feel my best.

what what's the best i have to give today so it's quickly acknowledging what's happening not denying it not resisting it not trying to power through and then adjusting your expectations for what you have to give giving it and then not beating yourself up after because what happens when you beat yourself up is then you get into this guilt and the shame spiral and that's when a bad day becomes a bad week whereas if you can just say like all right it wasn't there today i adjusted i gave it my best shot i'm gonna rest i'm gonna recover i'm gonna try to get a good night's sleep and we'll see what happens again tomorrow

Yeah, so what I would say is that you're going to the gym for probably a different reason.

My guess is you're going to the gym because you value your health.

You probably value your cognitive health because your brain is your greatest asset and you've got a really good one on your head and inside your skull.

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