Brad Stulberg

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.

And when you have that combination, that's when really good things tend to happen.

It's gotta be for a few select things.

I think that, as I was saying, if you try to bring this to everything, like you're just gonna burn yourself out and you're probably not gonna enjoy or be very excellent at any of the things.

So I think this is for one or at most two things in your life.

So a lot of people have a primary craft

And then maybe there's a secondary craft.

So in my own life, I bring this most to writing.

That's my craft.

I'm very lucky.

It's also my profession.

And then as an athlete, I try to train with this mindset most of the time, but certainly not all the time because it's secondary.

There are times when I'm in the gym and I'm checking my email in between sets because it's not my job and that's okay.

If I tried to do this when I was scrambling at Ag, I think I'd be miserable and burnt out all the time.

And then there are things in life that like we should just enjoy for their own sake.