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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Right.
When I sit down to write, that's important for the next hour and a half.
I want to be really focused.
So that means that my phone is going to be charging in the basement.
It's not even going to be on the same floor as me.
And I'm going to turn off my email client.
I'm not going to minimize it.
So I see the little mail icon pop up and then have to resist checking it.
I'm actually going to hit the X and quit the program for an hour and a half.
So I think that we need to think about designing our environment to enable us to focus.
And then focus to me is just the absence of distraction.
And again, it's simple, but simple does not mean easy, especially in today's world.
The initial resistance it takes to get started with something, especially when you're novice and you're not too good, and facing that initial resistance and expecting that the first couple weeks or the first month of a commitment to excellence in anything is
is going to feel pretty hard and challenging and at times uncomfortable.
And you are going to make yourself vulnerable to looking stupid or to failing.
Once you get through that initial resistance, then I think that the satisfaction, which is a word I keep using because that's the big reward, the satisfaction of trying really hard, getting intimate with a craft, making progress is so great that it keeps you coming back.
But it's the initial resistance.
It's the, hey, like you said, I work a job
I'm an accountant at a big firm.
I don't really care about being excellent at that.
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