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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Break Out of Feeling “Stuck”

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Pretend you’re a blade of grass, trying to push through the soil and enjoy everything the sun has to offer. The fragile bit of grass is beneath tons of soil and stone. It doesn't know if it is getting nearer to the surface and the sun, it only knows the direction it must keep pushing. Not until the instant it breaks through the cold soil into the light does it know the effort will be rewarded. A blade of grass, of course, doesn't suffer from the doubt and second thoughts that make our path seem harder as we get closer to our objective. In fact, so many times, when we are just about to succeed, and grow free in the light, is when we quit because the dirt is just too hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm not going to run for 10 years the same I'm not going to keep banging my head try to run through the wall

0:05.1

I'm not going to keep on keep on keep on keep on doing that

0:09.4

This is the flavor. So a lot of people ask about being stuck. I love being stuck. Let me tell you why if I'm in a room

0:17.2

And the door is jammed

0:20.4

Only one way I know it's stuck that I'm stuck in the room

0:26.0

How anyone know when I try to get out?

0:30.9

The only way right if I'm in a room that you know

0:35.4

Who's to say right now we're not stuck

0:38.4

Right remember space is infinite right and actuality, you know

0:43.4

We used to be stuck in this atmosphere and then they figured out how to send a rocket ship out

0:47.6

But we were we were stuck. It's just a matter of space, right, right, but you only know you only you only knew we were stuck when

0:55.2

When we tried to get out

0:57.6

Stuck is good

0:59.4

Stuck is good because right what we're doing we're pursuing our potential when we're stuck

1:05.3

So what we want to do though is we don't want to keep doing the same things. So for example, you know

1:11.4

If if there's a big wall in my way and I'm trying to get around the wall. I'm stuck

1:17.3

I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running this way. Oh

1:21.2

Years and years and years. I can't get around it. Do I keep on running?

1:25.6

Maybe

1:26.8

Or if I run this way years and years and years year can't get around it

1:30.8

Then I start digging digging digging. I can't get under it. Then I start climbing man 40 years go by 10 years this way 10 years this way

1:39.2

Not for me. I'm looking for the key

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