New pod: The 2024 annual health fads, facts, and fictions episode, with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

Including:
- The dark side of supplement mania
- Is VO2 max the best fitness metric in the world—or just the most hyped?

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Dear Brad,
Your piece on John Moreland today was truly moving. Your words, like Moreland's music, deserve more attention. Thanks to digital tools, I can connect with your work, and for that, I'm grateful.
Best!

Brad Stulberg #JohnMoreland

Excellence requires intimacy.

The world today is crazy. People are losing their minds.

If we want to reclaim excellence and meaning then we've got to figure out ways to undo all the separation between us and what matters to us.

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I know some people who get so into optimization, recovery-tracking, cold-exposure, and nutrient timing that every meal and shower—and even sleep—becomes something to excel at for a future goal. No wonder everyone is exhausted: thegrowtheq.com/the-problem-wi…

Tomorrow's episode is a banger on all things productivity (not the bro/hustle variety, but also not the anti-work variety).

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Tragic optimism is an example of non-dual thinking, or holding two seemingly competing ideas at once. Non-dual thinking can be a game changer. It’s key to mental health, sustainable progress, and navigating challenges. thegrowtheq.com/tragic-optimis…

If you want to be your best—let alone THE best—at something, you've got to work really hard, take risks, put yourself out there, fail a bunch, almost break at times, and keep going. It's not easy stuff. Which is precisely why you also need to be kind to yourself along the way.

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If your identity becomes too enmeshed in any one concept or endeavor—be it your age, how you look in the mirror, a relationship, or your career—then you are likely to face significant distress when things change, which, for better or worse, they always do.

Wherever you are, the goal post is always 10 yards down the field. If you develop a mindset “If I just accomplish ___, THEN I’ll arrive,” you are in for a rude awakening. There is no arriving. The sooner you realize this, the better. thegrowtheq.com/how-to-overcom…