278. Adam Alter — From Stuck to Unstoppable: Gaining and Keeping Momentum [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Business, Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

5.0 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of feeling stuck and watching your competitors soar? What if you could transform every setback into a stepping stone for unprecedented growth in your law firm? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Adam Alter, New York Times best-selling author and professor at NYU's Stern School of Business. Adam has mastered the art of getting unstuck and developed the algorithm to achieve game changing breakthroughs. After listening to this episode, you’ll know how to: Harness the power of progress to turn small steps into big victories Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation in your law firm Avoid the pitfalls that get most people stuck ---- Show Notes: 00:00 – Introduction 02:32 – Why Adam Alter wrote Anatomy of a Breakthrough 03:31 – What it means to be stuck 04:37 – The first step to getting unstuck 08:03 – How to break through plateaus and grow where others peak 11:34 – Why struggles and challenges can be good things 15:30 – The difference between learning from failure and just making bad decisions 18:10 – How embracing “beginnerhood” can make you an expert 22:53 – The role that luck plays in success 25:43 – The dangers of being stubborn and how to avoid these traps 30:13 – Why people overestimate the novelty of their ideas 34:26 – How to create a culture of experimentation and innovation 40:01 – The best thing to do when you’re stuck 42:24 – What being a game changer means to Adam Alter ---- Links & Resources Anatomy of a Breakthrough by Adam Alter (Book) NCAA Dave Berkoff Sam Snead Joe Bernal ---- Listening to this episode but want to watch it? Check it out on Spotify. Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: #180 Seth Godin – Putting Your Best Work Out Into the World #116 Steven Kotler – Harnessing Neuroscience for Peak Performance #237 AMMA – Breaking Out of Complacency: Transformation Through Innovation

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0:00.0	We get better over time. Certainly our cognitive capacity declines a little bit over time and quite rapidly in old age, but as adults get more mature, they by definition, have more success.
0:13.8	That's Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author and professor at NYU's Stern School Business.
0:19.3	If you look, there is a huge amount of luck, empirically so, in successful careers.
0:24.2	People do stumble on things.
0:25.8	There are important moments that happen to change the trajectory of their lives, but also
0:29.9	you make that happen.
0:37.4	I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:42.2	I've built my business through practice, not theory.
0:45.0	Crisp started which is $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:50.4	earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:54.9	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth within our own organization
0:59.2	and help the country's most ambitious and committed law firm owners do the same for theirs.
1:03.7	In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond
1:08.5	to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity,
1:11.6	challenge the status quo, and define what it means to be a true game changer.
1:16.0	Today, we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes from the podcast where I sat down with
1:20.2	Adam Alter to discuss why failures often pave the way for our successes, why it's better
1:24.6	to strive for excellence instead of perfection, and how to get unstuck when it
1:28.6	matters most. If you're moving, if you're making progress, you demonstrate to yourself that you're
1:34.0	not stuck and that's very important because the emotional consequences of being stuck are quite
1:37.7	damaging and the sense of progress, that sense of velocity that comes from progress is very
1:42.8	important for making further progress.
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