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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So you're probably not pursuing excellence in the gym.
I would turn that around though, Mike, and say, what about when you podcast and when you're in the pocket of just recording a really good episode or a good string of episodes or where you feel like the last month you've just been putting out bangers?
My guess is that you enjoy that a lot more.
And this is the area of your life where you're excellent and where you're pursuing excellence.
And that's OK.
It's unrealistic to try to be excellent at everything because you're not going to be excellent at everything.
But in order to really be great at something, yes, you have to enjoy it.
And I think this is another one of these misnomers with pseudo excellence.
You have all these guys on the internet and they run around pretending to be Navy SEALs talking about how great they are at suffering and how hard everything is.
Guess what?
No elite athlete.
No elite artist, no great writer hates writing or doing sports or making art.
They might find it really challenging.
They might find it very hard.
They might have bad days.
But the totality of the experience, of course they like it.
Because if you don't enjoy what you do, if you don't have fun, then you're not going to last very long.
There's this enormous misnomer that intensity and joy are separate and they're opposites.
But what I found in my reporting and my research is that actually intensity and joy can often coexist.
Like you can bring your all and be really intense about something and have a great time doing it.
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