Author, speaker, and coach, Brad Stulberg comes on the podcast to talk about what surgeons can learn from performance athletes. He researches and writes about mental health, mastery, meaning, and excellence. He is bestselling author of the books The Practice of Groundedness and Master of Change. He regularly contributes to the New York Times and his work has also been featured in the Atlantic and Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He is a co-founder of the Growth Equation, a newsletter and media platform dedicated to the art, science, and practice of excellence.
Some of the pearls we cover in this conversation:
- Building a strong foundation to ride the highs and lows
- Becoming okay with acute failure to achieve chronic gain
- Addressing failure to achieve mastery
- Consistency over intensity
- How simplifying your practice can monumentally improve your life
- The importance of going all in in a way that is sustainable
- Striving is the point
- World class suffering does not equate to world class performance
- Minimum effective dosing to diversify your identity beyond "surgeon"
- 3 causes of physician burnout
- The clutch state and raising the floor
- Stress + Rest = Growth
- Showing up as a fallible human to create psychological safety for your team
- The middle ground is where genuine excellence lives
- Anyone can crush the day, but it takes intention and compassion to sustain excellence
Here's how to find him and work with him:
https://www.instagram.com/bradstulberg/
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