How to Get Unstuck with Adam Alter

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Adam Alter shares valuable strategies for learning how to become unstuck and break through common barriers in life. He emphasizes the importance of seeking new perspectives and thinking differently to break through mental and emotional blocks. He also highlights the connection between physical movement and creative inspiration, explaining how it stimulates the brain and unlocks fresh ideas.

In this episode, you’ll be able to:

Discover powerful strategies to unblock personal growth hurdles and pave a clear path toward your goals
Uncover the surprising relationship between physical movement and creativity
Recognize the unspoken value of failure and how it can lead to unforeseen successes
Immerse in the importance of broadening your horizon and embracing new perspectives to clear mental roadblocks
Learn how and why exploration and exploitation for fostering both personal and professional growth

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0:00.0	more often people quit too soon. So they stop things too soon. That doesn't mean you shouldn't say,
0:05.0	all right, I'm done with this thing I should move on and it's great to try new things,
0:08.3	but I think our tendency is to say this got hard and I'm just going to abandon it.
0:20.4	Welcome to the one you feed. Through our time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:25.5	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:32.6	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:38.6	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:45.3	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
0:51.9	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:57.6	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:09.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Tony Evans and I'm excited to have you join me on this new podcast Heroes in the
1:24.1	Bible. Come to me, boy, you and your God will crumble beneath my feet. He beckoned the giant and said,
1:32.9	I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts and creator of the stars. Listen to Heroes in the
1:39.5	Bible, Dr. Tony Evans, on the IHOD Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:48.7	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at New
1:54.0	York University Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow
2:00.1	with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Adam is a
2:05.1	New York Times best-selling author and he's also written for The New York Times, New Yorker,
2:10.3	Washington Post, Atlantic, Wired, and many others. He's also shared his ideas on NPR's fresh air
2:16.8	at the Con Leon Festival of Creativity and with dozens of companies. Adam's academic research
2:22.4	focuses on judgment and decision-making and social psychology with a particular interest in the
2:28.3	sometimes-surprising effects of subtle clues in the environment on human cognition and behavior.
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