The Three Marriages

Six Books That Changed How We Think About Performance

excellence, actually, 25 June 2026. The book comes up at 2 min 13 sec in.

Brad Stahlberg's first pick. The book argues that everyone is simultaneously in three intimate relationships—with the self, with a vocation or craft, and with another person or community. Brad discusses how driven high performers often sacrifice the marriage to self by overcommitting to craft, and reads two David White passages: one on how success can block introspection, and one on how engagement in a loved craft redirects energy that was previously spent articulating unhappiness.

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