Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career

or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another.

And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck.

So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change,

we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take

to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear,

takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story

and the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck,

Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as

rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback

loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better Up

to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life.

My focus practice, hour after hour, day after day gives me a sense of clarity and purpose.

I'm trying to learn a front one and a half. So a flip and a dive, but I'm afraid to keep rotating

past the flip. I'm not sure what I think is going to happen, but I'm so terrified that I only do

a front one and a quarter and just belly flop. Try after try the whole summer. I feel like I'm

hanging on a little bit longer each time, but the tapes show me I'm not. I think I'm learning

to let go of control, but I'm still gripping it just as tightly. I think I'm confronting my fear,

but I'm actually powerless against it.

Adam Grant is a professor of Organizational Psychology at Wharton, a treasured Ted Speaker,

and the multiple New York Times bestselling author. In his newest book, Think Again,

Adam weaves together research and storytelling to help us take curious enough about the world

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