BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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"To be alive is to battle stuckness." So declares NYU professor Adam Alter in his new book, "Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most." Adam has spent years studying why we get stuck — in dead-end jobs and creative cul-de-sacs — and, crucially, how to go from inertia to success. --- What if Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink hand-picked the eight best books of the year and delivered them to your doorstep? We know that sounds too good to be true, but it's precisely what you'll get when you sign up for a hardcover subscription to The Next Big Idea Club!

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:01.0	If you're ever in the mood to be grossed out, go on YouTube and search for videos of
0:11.0	soccer, superstar, Lionel Messi throwing up.
0:15.3	He was seen vomiting multiple times on the pitch during games.
0:20.6	A surprising number of sports fans, slash armchair gastroenterologists, have tried to figure
0:25.6	out why the Argentinian forward was once so prone to losing his lunch.
0:31.4	The answer it turns out is pretty simple.
0:33.9	Messi had stage fright, so bad that it made him hurl.
0:41.0	If you've experienced stage fright yourself, then you know it can be debilitating.
0:47.1	Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis once got it so bad during a production of Hamlet
0:52.5	that he walked off the stage mid-scene and never returned.
0:57.5	To experience stage fright is to feel stuck in the mud with an anchor wrapped around your
1:03.4	ankles.
1:04.8	And that's a hard feeling to overcome.
1:07.8	The Hamlet incident with Daniel Day Lewis was more than 30 years ago, but he hasn't
1:11.8	acted in a play since.
1:14.6	Lionel Messi, on the other hand, has found a way to get unstuck.
1:18.6	He figured out how to calm his nerves, settle his stomach, and put one foot in front
1:23.2	of the other.
1:24.6	His hack?
1:26.0	He puts one foot in front of the other, just very, very slowly.
1:32.8	For the first few minutes of every game, Messi doesn't sprint after the ball.
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