Books
With multiple bestsellers and more than 600,000 copies sold in 20 languages, The Way of Excellence, Master of Change, The Practice of Groundedness, and Peak Performance have been helping people attain their full potential by offering the ideas, skills, and practices you need to develop and sustain a path toward excellence, meaning, and flourishing.
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"An absolutely beautiful book that captures a lot of what I believe as a coach."
Steve Kerr, 9 time NBA Champion, Coach of the Golden State Warriors and Team USA
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“Gets to the heart of the matter on all things excellence."
Ryan Holiday, author of Stillness Is the Key and Ego Is the Enemy
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“More excellence with less angst.”
Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden Potential
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"Taps into things many of us feel but can't yet articulate on our own."
Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global
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"A crucial alternative for those of us looking for a deeper approach to success."
Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work
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"I literally underline every sentence."
Shalane Flanagan, New York City Marathon Champion and 4x Olympian
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"Ambitious, far-reaching, and impactful.”
David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of Range and The Sports Gene
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"Brad Stulberg at his best: relentlessly pragmatic, truly wise, and genuinely helpful."
Derek Thompson, author of Abundance, Hitmakers, and host of the podcast Plain English
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The definitive book on excellence—beloved by world champion coaches and athletes, award-winning artists, top entrepreneurs and executives, and high performers across fields
Whether you are pushing your limits at the gym, practicing guitar, leading a team, honing a craft, studying medicine, or giving yourself the time and space to finally take on that big creative project, The Way of Excellence is a practical guide to actualizing your potential amid the craziness of modern life.
Unlike "pseudo-excellence," which is about hustle culture and hacks, genuine excellence means doing hard things, creating, contributing, and expressing the unique qualities that make you who you are. Too often, we get caught up in convenience and distraction to the detriment of our full potential.
Though our environments often work against us, we can overcome the default options and set out on a better path, one that includes more meaning, aliveness, and resonance; more connection to yourself, to others, and to the big projects and goals in your life.
A revelatory book on overcoming challenges, creating a rugged and flexible mindset and identity, and developing the habits and skills for life's intensifying flux.
Change and challenge are not the exceptions, they are the rules. Yet we endlessly fight them, often viewing them as a threat to our stability and sense of self.
Master of Change flips this script on its head and offers a path for embracing and even growing from life’s constant instability. You’ll read about responding versus reacting, the importance of tragic optimism, how to stay consistent and keep showing up, and so much more. This book will help you navigate the highs, lows, and everything between on your path.
A healthier and more sustainable model for success. To be grounded is to possess a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found.
Achievement often comes at a cost. While the high of occasional wins can keep you going for a while, playing into the always-on, never enough hustle culture ultimately takes a serious toll.
Groundedness is a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gains. It does not eliminate ambition and striving; rather, it situates these qualities and channels them in more meaningful ways. The result is better, more fulfilling, and more enduring performance.
A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory, or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same.
Peak Performance demystifies these practices and makes them accessible to everyone. It combines inspiring stories of top performers across a range of domains – from athletic to intellectual to artistic – with the latest science on the cognitive, neurochemical, and physiological factors that underlie mastery. The result is an entertaining read that links traditionally-siloed fields and relies upon cutting-edge science. In doing so, it uncovers unique and powerful insights that can help you take your game to the next level, whatever your game may be.