Hey there, Shankar here. We wanted to give our listeners a heads-up that we're hiring here at Hidden Brain.

We're currently looking for a marketing and promotions assistant to help us connect our editorial work with fans across multiple platforms.

You can find more information at hiddenbrain.org slash jobs. We also anticipate we'll be bringing more staff on board to help us with writing, producing,

and editing video scripts for YouTube and social media platforms.

We don't have job descriptions for those roles posted yet, but if you have experience

in video production for these platforms, we'd love to hear from you.

You can send your resume and a cover letter to jobs at hiddenbrain.org.

Thanks for your interest in working with us.

This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam.

There are moments in any journey when things can feel interminable.

You show up to work every day. Do the same job. Meet the same people. At home, you wash the dishes, clean the bedroom, do the laundry.

On weekends, you watch the same TV shows, go for the same walks, talk to the same relatives.

One day starts to look like the next. Weeks blur into each other. And then you start to wonder, what am I really doing? Where am I

headed? Am I making any progress at all? We have different names for this phenomenon.

Writers say they are blocked.

Office workers talk about being in a rut.

People of a certain age call it a midlife crisis.

But they are all different ways of saying, I'm stuck. This feeling of stuckness

can be a particularly big impediment when it comes to making progress on longstanding goals. There

are few things as demotivating as the feeling that no matter how hard you try, you never seem to get where you

want to go.

Today, we bring you the latest episode in our U2.0 series about the mental obstacles that

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