Hi and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

I'm Sarah, one of your hosts, and this episode is part of a special series that we've created to bring to life some of the ideas and insights in our new book, UKHU.

In this series of six episodes, we'll be talking to experts to get their thoughts on how we can help ourselves through

some of the nottier moments in our squiggly career. It might be coping with a challenging

relationship at work, feeling like your progress has stalled, or maybe figuring out how to find

more meaning from your job. Every episode relates to a chapter in You Coach You, and today we're focusing on our progression

chapter and specifically how we can overcome some of the constraints that come our way during

our career. You'll hear me talking to the brilliant Adam Morgan, author of a beautiful

constraint, and together we'll talk about how having a stubbornly adaptive mindset is

important and also how sometimes constraints can be moments of curiosity and creativity that

can create new opportunities for our career. So I hope you enjoy listening to my conversation

with Adam and get some good ideas for action and

practical hints and tips to take away. A constraint is a limitation of some kind. So a

constraint is something that limits you. It's usually externally imposed or you feel it's

externally imposed. So time typically, you know, I haven't enough time to do this.

It can be about money.

It can be resource.

It can be some, I've got to earn a certain salary.

I've got a certain amount of bills to pay.

That's a kind of a constraint that I have around the career or the career move I can make.

And so they are usually, as I say, externally or we feel they are externally imposed upon us, and that's what

makes them feel restrictive. It's this kind of, I don't have a choice. I've got to put up with this thing.

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