Moment 136: 3 VITAL Questions To Ask Yourself If You're Feeling Trapped In Life (Relationships, Work & Financially): Adam Alter

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this moment, professor of marketing and best-selling author, Adam Alter discusses how to become unstuck in life, work and relationships. The first thing is to understand what it actually means to become stuck, this often means judging whether to keep going with a particular path or to quit. In these instances Adam thinks it is best to think about the opportunity cost of leaving a goal behind, especially as research shows that it is nearly always a good idea to keep going beyond the point where it starts becoming hard as this is where growth happens. However, too often we quit as we view any sort of difficultly as a problem. One of the key ways that Adam thinks we can become unstuck is by simplifying a problem as much as possible, we can do this through what he calls a friction audit. This means knowing what is and isn’t important, what’s getting in the way, and how you can subtract it. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/GZHEMyQyMEb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos James: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ https://www.jameshoffmann.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.8	People are actually stuck in relationships and jobs financially stuck becoming much
0:24.8	lonelier as a species but there is a way to get unstuck and we're going to find out right now. Can you know the most popular examples of being stuck that my listeners now could
0:41.3	relate to? Yeah I've been running this survey for about five years on people all around the world asking them with that definition of stuckness.
0:48.0	Are you stuck in some way?
0:50.0	And I find that people, usually within about 15 seconds start typing a response which means
0:54.6	that stuckness is very top of mind and their responses vary so some of them are financially
0:59.1	stuck they want to be able to save or they want to be more money. Some of them are stuck in
1:03.3	relationships, some are stuck in jobs. A lot of them are stuck quite narrowly in
1:07.6	creative pursuits. Like I'm trying to learn this piano piece, I'm trying to learn
1:11.4	this new art technique technique I'm a filmmaker
1:13.4	and I can't come up with creative ideas I'm a business person and I can't figure out
1:17.7	what my next venture should be so there's a there's a very broad range and I find
1:22.3	that almost everyone in at least one respect with a bit of time comes up with something.
1:27.0	They say I'm stuck in this way and then they can express it.
1:29.5	What does it feel like when someone is stuck?
1:32.0	So how do I know if I'm stuck? Is there an emotional sort of, you know, sensation?
1:36.7	Yeah, it's an interesting question. So it's subjective. You know if you're stuck and you can feel it because you could be in the same
1:43.3	situation and not feel stuck I'll give you a good example of this I had a
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