484. How to Get Started & Keep Moving - The Infinite 1%
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever tell yourself, “What I’m doing isn’t enough, so I might as well not bother”? That thought is exactly what’s keeping you stuck. In this episode, I’m teaching one of my favorite concepts for getting out of overwhelm and into action: The Infinite 1%. You'll see why doing a little is actually everything.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by how far you have to go or waiting until you can do something perfectly, this is going to change how you think about progress. You’ll learn why your brain dismisses small actions, how that keeps you in inertia, and what it looks like to build real momentum by actually doing something instead of nothing.
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| 0:00.0 | For the next few episodes, I'm going to be teaching you some of the most powerful tools I have |
| 0:05.2 | to get you going when you're stuck. We're going to be talking about understanding procrastination |
| 0:12.0 | and how to stop procrastinating. We're going to be talking about a brand new concept. I'm |
| 0:16.6 | really excited to introduce you to called The Last 5%. And this week, I want to revisit one of my |
| 0:23.0 | best teachings on this topic, which is the infinite 1%. One theme throughout all of these several |
| 0:30.3 | episodes we're going to be doing is the way in which our story about what we're doing, our |
| 0:37.1 | conceptualization of what we're doing is the |
| 0:40.4 | biggest defining feature of whether we actually take action or not. Whether we actually |
| 0:47.7 | take action doesn't really have to do with our circumstances. It doesn't really have to do |
| 0:51.9 | with what quote unquote kind of person we are. It's not about our |
| 0:56.3 | failings, our character, our personality, our star sign, our human design, or anything else like that. |
| 1:02.9 | It is our thinking about the thing we have to do. And the infinite 1% is a concept, a tool, a mind hack, a genius reframe that helps you go from being |
| 1:16.2 | overwhelmed by the enormity of a large task or project or even change of direction in your life, |
| 1:22.7 | to seeing it as something eminently doable and recognizing the impact of small compounding |
| 1:29.7 | actions in a way that will get you over that inertia and get you out of that overwhelm |
| 1:35.6 | and motivate you to actually take action. So if there's anything in your life that you are not |
| 1:40.3 | taking action on, or you've taken some action, but like the end feels so far away |
| 1:45.6 | and you feel overwhelmed by the distance between where you are and where you want to be, |
| 1:51.1 | then this episode is an absolute game changer. So make sure you give it a listen. And then next |
| 1:56.6 | week, I'm going to be teaching you all about the other end of the spectrum, which is the 5% a reframe, a hack that's going to help you when you've gotten most of the way somewhere, but you think it's not working, or you don't even realize how far you've gotten because you think it's not working and you want to give up. So this week, we're starting at the beginning. Next week, we're ending at the end. These two episodes together |
| 2:17.6 | are the key to accomplishing anything you want to accomplish in your life. Give it a listen. |
| 2:23.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host, Kara Lowenthal, master-certified coach and founder |
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