A rep, McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

Do you feel stuck in life that you aren't making progress in a relationship, job, or goal,

and you don't know how to fix the problems and move forward?

Well, perhaps you can take a little solace in the fact that it's a universal human experience,

even amongst history's highest achievers.

Indeed, when Adam Alter, a social psychologist and professor of marketing,

looked at the lives of successful actors, musicians, writers, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs,

he found that they had all passed through times in their lives and careers when they felt totally stuck.

Today on the show, Adam, who's the author of Anatomy of a Breakthrough,

had to get unstuck when it matters most, explains why getting stuck is inevitable in life,

as well as mindset shifts and practices to escape from stuckness.

We first talk about what contributes to getting stuck, including the goal grading effect,

and how the illusion of the creative cliff can keep you from seeing that you may end up doing your best work later in life.

We then talk about dealing with the emotional lengths of feeling stuck,

and how it can be better to initially accept your stuckness and kick against the pricks.

From there, we turn to some tactics for getting unstuck, including doing a friction audit and copying the work of others.

In my favorite part of the conversation, we discuss the importance of recognizing when to move from exploring to exploiting the vice versa.

We enter conversation with why the mantra for getting unstuck is action overall.

After the show is over, check out our shunuts at a-wim.is slash unstuck.

Alright, Adam Alter, welcome back to the show.

Thanks so much for having me back again, Brett.

So we had you on a few years ago to talk about your book, Your Resistible.

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