Our Best Advice on Performance and Wellbeing in 2019

17 of the year's best pieces from our Do It Better columnist Brad Stulberg.

Over the past year, the global wellness industry reached a valuation of 4.2 trillion dollars. For perspective, that’s equal to nearly a third of China’s entire GDP. Though there are no reliable statistics for the size of the performance industry, just listen to the advertisements on your favorite podcast (or scroll through Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram) and you’ll quickly realize the deluge of products, services, and “hacks” promising increased productivity and performance. It’s not that none of this stuff can work. Surely, some of it can. But the fact remains: performance and wellbeing is not something that you buy. It’s a lifestyle that you cultivate.