1132: How to Find Deep Satisfaction While Pursuing Excellence with Brad Stulberg

In order to be excellent, in order to be awesome at your job, you've got to make yourself vulnerable. You have to care. You have to risk failure, you have to risk heartbreak. And at a certain point, it's inevitable that you are going to fail and you're gonna get your heart broken. But the upside of all the meaning and the satisfaction and the potential performance gains that you get from caring deeply way outweighs the downside of occasional heartbreak and occasional failure.

That's Brad Stolberg. He's the best-selling author of multiple books on performance, well-being, and sustainable excellence. His latest book is The Way of Excellence, a guide to true greatness and deep satisfaction in a chaotic world. Right has spent many hours researching and pondering what it means to be truly excellent. So you'll learn one, what true excellence looks and feels like, two, why to stop chasing happiness and what to focus on instead, and three, the best tool for building focus and concentration.

And if you want to get a summary write up of the actual wisdom that Brad shares, please sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter found at awesomatyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKitis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Brad. Brad, welcome back.

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