Brian Laird on W.N. Y.C. and we'll wrap up today's show with a relevant guest to calls from you if you

feel stuck.

Listeners, how many of you currently feel stuck in life or have felt stuck in life in the past

to one two four three three WNY see what do I mean by stock? Why do I ask this now? Well here we are on January 31st, so you've gotten

through dry January if you've been doing that what are you going to do tomorrow but if that

was your only new year's resolution or your main new year's resolution we're not even

talking about you because often the new year brings upon everybody a time of reflection and a desire to change really big things in our lives.

Maybe for some of you that is alcohol. But how have you been doing on

those biggest life-changing New Year's resolutions? 212 433 WNYC?

What situation or aspect of your life is making you feel stuck?

And our guest, who will further explain why we're inviting you to Colin and this in particular is

Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, an affiliated professor

of psychology as well at NYU and author of the book

anatomy of a breakthrough

how to get unstuck when it matters most

uh... professor alter welcome to WNYC.

Thank you for joining us.

Thanks so much for having me, Brian.

So listeners, help me invite the listeners in.

What kind of stuckness do you do you concentrate on in the book and and who

would you like to hear from today? Yeah it's a good question because there are a

lot of ways of thinking about what stuckness is. I'm really interested in the kind of

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