How to Get Unstuck (with Adam Alter)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara sit down with Adam Alter, a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and bestselling author of "Anatomy of a Breakthrough." They discuss why we all feel stuck at various points in our lives, the importance of failure, how to get motivated, and more.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
Associate Producer: Montana McBirney
Audio Engineer: Josh Windisch
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. I want to answer this podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I think I'm obsessed with Adam Alter. I think I think you're going to be obsessed |
| 0:14.3 | at Adam Alter. Not appropriate to even say that. No, I think the listeners are going to be |
| 0:18.6 | obsessed with Adam Alter. No, I agree. Okay, so he is a professor of marketing at New York |
| 0:24.8 | University Stern School of Business and the New York Times best-selling author of three |
| 0:29.7 | books, including his latest, which is called Anatomy of a Breakthrough. Yeah, and we talk a lot |
| 0:35.8 | about how we all get stuck in our lives and how to get unstuck, talk about failure, and we talk |
| 0:40.6 | about dealing with, you know, the unexpected ups and downs of life and just like how to not let |
| 0:45.1 | those things stick you in one spot without being able to pull out of it. I think this episode will |
| 0:50.8 | be a little unstick-yeah. Yeah, really with us. It's going to, it's going to unstick you. I think |
| 0:56.8 | you're going to listen and you're going to walk away and you're going to go, I'm going to get up |
| 1:00.0 | and I'm going to go do something. I'm going to go make a shift. Yes, I'm going to be out of bed. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's just one small step. Okay. All right, enjoy the episode. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi, Adam. Hi, Adam. How are you? Good. How are you? |
| 1:18.6 | Good. Thank you. Good. I'm Aaron. We don't know each other. So I figured you should, |
| 1:22.7 | you should be able to distinguish us from one another. Are we doing intros right away, |
| 1:25.7 | right off the bat? Well, so he knows who's talking to. I'm Aaron. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm Aaron. You can always, I'm Sarah. You could always tell when we have people of your stature |
| 1:37.4 | on the podcast. This is a real stature. Someone with a real education. Okay, fair enough, |
| 1:44.9 | fair enough. I'll take it. I'll take it. That's very kind. We have CEOs and founders of |
| 1:49.5 | Fortune 500 companies. I usually, you know, I have like a different tone in my voice and |
| 1:55.1 | be a professor. There's a little different tone. And then when we have, but you did wear a hoodie |
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