475: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most with Adam Alter
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
You may recall that in the first episode of 2023, I spelled out the six books I was most looking forward to in the first half of this year. Today, I’m thrilled to be able to feature the fourth of those six books. That book is Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When […]
The post 475: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most with Adam Alter first appeared on Read to Lead Podcast.Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast episode 475. |
| 0:12.9 | Once things start getting hard, that's when the good ideas if you persevere, start |
| 0:16.9 | emerging. |
| 0:17.6 | And so that's one of the big traps is to quit too soon because you mistake |
| 0:21.7 | the hardness with which those ideas come to you for inferiority, whereas they're actually |
| 0:26.2 | often much better. Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you're muddling through a |
| 0:31.2 | midlife crisis, wrestling writers' block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying |
| 0:36.1 | friendship, the resulting emotion is usually |
| 0:38.7 | a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn't have to be this way. |
| 0:45.1 | Our featured book today is the roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish. |
| 0:50.9 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast that's |
| 0:55.2 | dedicated to your personal and professional growth, or I believe that if you want to achieve |
| 0:59.1 | true success in business and in life, that intentional and consistent reading is a must. |
| 1:04.2 | Our guest today is Adam Alter. He's here to help us get unstuck. He's written a book called |
| 1:09.5 | Anatomy of a breakthrough, |
| 1:11.7 | How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most. And I'm going to be asking Adam to share about how to |
| 1:17.0 | tackle a project's inevitable midpoint law, ways you can better manage unwanted change, |
| 1:23.5 | the benefits of artificial constraints, and embracing the paradox that restrictions can be liberating and much, much more. |
| 1:31.1 | Hey, I want to let you know real quick that Read to Lead Plus is finally open, and you can try it out free for 30 days. |
| 1:38.9 | After that, it's just $9 a month. |
| 1:41.9 | What do you get when you join Read to Lead Plus at jeffbrown. |
| 1:45.5 | You get access to monthly live streams led by yours truly on a variety of topics. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jeff Brown, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jeff Brown and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.