Brad Stulberg

Author of many books.
The Way of Excellence is a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.
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[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

My new book The Way of Excellence is out now.

You can buy it here: https://t.co/UAdoKIABpE

Writing it changed my life. I hope reading it does the same for you.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

I don't understand the infatuation with this guy or really anyone who spends 10 hrs a day streaming on the internet. It seems like a loser existence. Go date someone. Raise kids. Volunteer in your community. Train for a marathon. Deadlift 2x your bodyweight. Coach youth sports.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i’d rather be successful and advocate for the poor than be a broke trump booster advocating for the rich.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

51% of adults read 0 books a year. Only 16% read daily.

Reading has declined by 43% over the last 20 years. The decline cuts across age, gender, and race. No wonder it seems like all the serious people have disappeared.

Save your brain. Read a book. Be the counterculture.

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@maxlugavere Co-sign.

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@aporia9n The idea that daily balance is an illusion and that the best lives are lived in seasons comes directly from Chapter 7 of The Way of Excellence. If you haven't yet, check out the book I suspect you'll love it. https://t.co/QMMhSCRaNL

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The idea that daily balance is an illusion and that the best lives are lived in seasons comes directly from The Way of Excellence. If you find this idea resonant and want to go deeper, I guarantee you'll find the book valuable: https://t.co/QMMhSCRaNL

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

This is the way of excellence. Sam Presti gets it. https://t.co/R0SGkH6kas

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Sam Presti defines the real goal of leadership

“In this job as a leader, what you want to do is build teams that you wish you could have been a part of.”

“We talk about our seasons as chapters. In order to best understand your story, you need to see it horizontally, not vertically.”

“Every year, our goal is to repeat a process—not chase an outcome. The process is to position our team and organization so that, if we are fortunate enough to have things break our way, we can achieve ultimate success.”

“What makes great teams lasting isn’t that they defeated their opponents. It’s that they also defeated the circumstances that stood in their way during their journey.”

“We have a chance to be a team that makes our mark over time. But we will not make our singular mark every single time.”

“That’s just not how this works. NBA history tells us there are no final victories.”

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Using AI to write an essay is like taking a gondola to the top of a mountain. You don’t really know the mountain. You don’t get the satisfaction of having exerted yourself on the mountain. You aren’t shaped by the mountain. And, in the case of AI writing, the mountaintop itself is shittier than had you climbed it yourself.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Rather than masking grads for one semester (just kicks the can down the road) a better approach might be to help young adults cope with pressure, acknowledge failure is a part of life, teach resilience, strive for excellence, and help people build identities beyond their grades.

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

Oh wow 😬

University of Michigan will HIDE first-semester grades on transcripts for students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

It’s to “curb the mental health crisis”

AND

The policy is mandatory for all students bc “covering an individual’s grades will inadvertently become equated w/them not doing well in a class”

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The things that work, work great—until they get in the way. So much of life is not this or that but this and that. Here are some of the most important examples. Once you see the truth of this, you see it every day, and you can’t unsee it. https://t.co/V6SKk7BWly

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Matt — asking seriously, what would it take for there to be 3 parties in America? Or even 4? Seems like this would be a good moment for it.

-DSA
-Never Trumpers and liberal democrats who are pro choice
-Never Trumpers who are pro life and more lower case c conservative
-MAGA

The two middle ones could even maybe just agree to disagree on some things and be one party.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

@Colin_Masterson Thanks Colin!

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

The reason I deadlift is because no robot or algorithm can feel a heavy-ass bar start to move off the ground. There are tools that can lift more weight. More efficiently. More easily. But that’s not the point. The point is the experience, the feeling of being alive.

Just hit a new PR at age 40, after months in the valley.

And, sorry to say it, but the secret is there is no secret: no hack or protocol or supplement.

Consistency over intensity.
Fundamentals over fads.
Progress over perfection.
(Over and over again.)

There were so many times I faced doubt and wondered if my best lifts were behind me, if I should stop and try something new. But here we are.

Writing will always be my primary craft but I love the concreteness of lifting. I love the gym community. I love training and confronting my limits. I love having skin in the game. I love feeling alive.

Working toward competence is a great feeling. It doesn’t have to be lifting. It can be anything. Running. Swimming. Cycling. Pottery. Sculpting. Baking. Watercolor. Woodworking. But there are such vast benefits for the soul to finding something real and objective where you succeed and fail on your own terms.

(For the lifting nerds, that’s 535 on the bar at a body weight of 208.)

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

@ThadsGlad 405 is no joke!

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@SahilBloom Thanks Sahil!

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@HarvF Outstanding!

[Iowa TF/XC Coaches Clinic @IowaTrackClinic]

The 58th annual Iowa Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Clinic registration is officially OPEN!
https://t.co/K49TgqcsXJ
We are so excited to have @BStulberg - author of the books "The Way of Excellence", "Master of Change" and "The Practice of Groundedness" + is a coauthor of "Peak Performance" and "The Passion Paradox"  - on hand this year to kick off the 58th annual clinic!!
Stulberg, who writes on the popular blog & multimedia platform 'The Growth Equation', is a regular contributor at The New York Times, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, will start off the clinic (12/4, 12/5) with a session on 'The Way of Excellence' - and thanks to the @iatfcc - every coach who is in attendance & pre-registered by 11/20 will receive a copy of the best-selling book at check-in!!
#learnfromthebest #becomeyourbest #IATFXCClinic
@ChampProduction

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

When you throw your all into a process, that process becomes an expression of your very essence. Musicians, coaches, teachers, physicians, entrepreneurs, writers, parents, and of course athletes all know this to be true. It's an incredible feeling. https://t.co/WSNpseL9w3

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@JillFilipovic The socialists don’t care about beating republicans any more than they care about beating democrats — it’s a different party altogether and lowercase “l” liberal democrats would be wise to recognize this.

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@DKThomp The thing I’m most excited about is Tyrese Maxey having the chance to learn from LeBron. Maxey is everything you want in a star athlete. Watch his star continue to rise.