"people are actually stuck in relationships and jobs financially stuck becoming much lonelier as a species but there is a way to get unstuck and we're going to find out right now Adam alter New York Ti..."

"know if the decisions we're making in our life right now in all the areas of our life are the right decisions or the wrong decisions Adam has scientifically backed answers to all of these questions he..."

"because this book helps people to get unstuck why did you decide to write a book called anatomy of a breakthrough and you know what writing books takes a huge amount of time and effort and you're a ma..."

"can you give me you know the the most popular examples of being stuck that my listeners now could relate to yeah I've been running this survey for about five years on people all around the world askin..."

"people I think what happens is as you specialize you're supposed to get more and more narrow in what you do and you have less Variety in what you do and that's how you get stuck is by doing the same t..."

"you almost become a victim to being good at something in life don't you because you get promoted and promoted and promoted up in that direction and your label whatever it is doctor dentist lawyer beco..."

"hierarchical organizations this happens by I guess in part by being a bit unconscious about what you want yeah and you just kind of take what you're given so you take the promotion and you take this a..."

"not and book tries in in the book I try to distinguish those cases from from each other like when should you let life lead you and when should you be a little more purposeful on that exact point I've ..."

"don't know how they feel in isolation as well if I took you and put you in a room for a week and said you can have food and water and you can have your thoughts and I took you out of after a week and ..."

"they tested people and they said would you rather take an electric shock or sit here for a couple of minutes on your own and people took it's a it's a brilliant study I mean the way they set it up is ..."

"you talk about in drunk tank pink how people behave differently when they're in the presence of others and I found that really really curious could you just give me a flavor of the some of the studies..."

"being energized by others so if I work out with someone then I'm more likely to You'll lift more you'll run faster and so on yeah pretty reliably in that book as well um before we get on to being unst..."

"initial so they found that when Hurricane Katrina came through and devastated New Orleans people whose names began with a K donated way more than people whose names didn't begin with a k the same for ..."

"an element of um discrimination and Prejudice associated with that because I think if a name was easier to pronounce it's probably familiar it's therefore probably culturally popular they're probably ..."

"in the effects of of the weather and of colors around us and how those shape our our experiences of the world so there's a some of it's not all that surprising but uh you see even in baseball matches ..."

"but yeah oh really yeah they found that if you leave people in there for too long apparently there's a backlash yeah hitchhikers should wear red yeah this is uh this is a research looking at how how e..."

"is probably why Conor McGregor's has this famous saying where he says it's red panty night all right so when he wins a fight he I think he said it on the microphone to Joe Rogan he said oh it's red pa..."

"thank you thank you so much back to the episode so getting getting to the topic of being unstuck then which is what the anatomy of a breakthrough is all about what does it feel like when someone is st..."

"progress objectively for 30 years the idea drives me crazy but for his dad for Malcolm's dad that that was something that was really appealing he really enjoyed that process and so I think a lot of of..."

"move on I've thought a lot about this and in my last book I wrote a chapter about quitting and I was trying to figure out why I appear to be quite a good quitter I'm well known for quitting school my ..."

"good stuff happens when things are hard and because we're human and we have been evolutionarily I don't know pinned into the situation where hardship is seen as a problem like we're using too many res..."

"section felt like a bit of narrative shift yeah I mean it was it was a it was a big thing for me that um you know one of the ideas that's very prominent in my field is this availability heuristic it's..."

"find who's more creative young people or middle-aged people or old people it's interesting so young people and I'm thinking especially about kids because I have a five-year-old and a seven-year-old um..."

"convention yeah and that harder road which is to try and reason up from first principles per se yeah um you mentioned an athlete yeah who are you referring to yes there's an athlete Named Dave burkhof..."

"can't do it the first time coach them through it work work through it with them but don't just do it with your framework do it with find 10 ad campaigns say imagine you're the chief marketing officer ..."

"like because I I think about we have this group and all of my companies called Ever Changing landscape and the whole point of the group is when we see something changing in the world or you know might..."

"and in the Casio where you say 50 of people are not doing the work on the slack Channel you could break that 50 down into I think two broad groups there's one group that's just the way that kind of pe..."

"they're just there to do the bare minimum and that's where I think you're pouring your your attention and education into that that first set of people who are motivated is key do you think you can tea..."

"their professional Pursuits so could you and you know I have to pref have to provide some Nuance here that it doesn't matter if someone goes home and watches keeping up with Kardashians they'll be use..."

"want to figure out the rest because you don't get there from zero you talk about maximizing and satisficing you believe there are two outlooks on success this is part two of your business um your book..."

"very best I'm going to maximize I'm going to make it as good as it can possibly be and I'm going to bring the resources required to make that happen satisfices of people who say you know there's a lev..."

"likely to get stuck on small unimportant things depression is that um a trait of maximizes yeah absolutely High achieving yeah I mean so what what ends up happening is it's the same as perfectionism t..."

"so I I think that's that's a very powerful human element in in these calculations when you're talking about experimenters these are people that go in search of nuances and ask why our experimenters ty..."

"an Olympian how do I get to be an Olympian I'm going to maximize the hell out of that and so it's it's about finding something that's really important to you where it's worth being an experimentalist ..."

"rise in Marathon running so I wasn't the only one there's an over-representation of marathon runners especially first-time marathon runners who have a nine at the end of their age if you were already ..."

"in the context of your physiological Health your metabolic Health but symbols symbols matter and you talk about symbols in your first book as well yeah and we don't appreciate how much symbols sway ou..."

"symbol the way it's used or has been used for the last almost 100 years now um but the amount of meaning that's conveyed in those symbols is is tremendous um and so it's there's a there's a sort of te..."

"we develop that sense of privilege and I think cultures that that don't have that to the same extent or that's still Hue to religion more strongly you have much more of a recognition that hey to some ..."

"liberating even if the action itself doesn't bring measurable rewards in the short term I was thinking as you're saying that the con within the context of dating so you've just come out of a horrific ..."

"action one of the great things it does especially when you're you're ruminating and you're thinking about how bad and tough things are is action is a phenomenal distraction like when you're acting you..."

"yeah I mean I think that's right I also think The Human Experience is essentially bouncing like a ping pong ball from one thing to the next where the next thing you do is trying to capture whatever fe..."

"simplify the problem as much as possible that way you can identify what the sticking points are I call this simplifying of the complex a friction audit what did you mean by that yeah so over the years..."

"process and that friction audit process I guess it starts with that question which is like what's getting in the way yeah you can ask yourself that you can ask your team that question yeah we probably..."

"it made me reflect as you're saying that on that is it the 61 rule in aviation have you heard that uh yeah I think I know what you mean where if you're one degree off for every x amount of miles you t..."

"ready to drink range which I have here in front of me on the table why did I choose to drink this first and foremost convenience I'm not the type of person that wants to spend a huge amount of time wh..."

"This research these these researchers were asking this question is there something if we look at the course of thousands of careers in different areas creatives business people and so on scientists ca..."

"so people that might have been doing the same thing for a couple of decades or a decade I'm probably not gonna stumble across a career hot streak because they're missing that experimentation and that ..."

"really important default to have at certain times in your life we talked before we started recording about some of the subjects that you love talking about and creativity was one of them when we think..."

"musicians who is the most original musician of the 20th century one of the most common responses is Bob Dylan but if you look deeply Dylan certainly had a lot of elements that seemed like they were di..."

"going to feel like the ideas have to be a certain level of goodness to share them okay so start alone everyone has their own document and then you combine it at some point ah nice that's much better f..."

"do really easily and you're struggling with it that's very different from doing something that's hard and persevering through that hardship so I think it's always important to ask in the background am..."

"of research lately on on Nostalgia on the concept of nostalgia um I I think in many ways it's the most powerful backward facing emotion we have that as you get older you you start to miss things that ..."

"often mistake these momentous things that we go through for being like what life is really about but actually a lot of it is the kind of mundane routine stuff that's every day and the reason I like th..."

"yeah now and I mean there are three components to well-being there's anticipation before something happens there's momentary when it's happening and then there's retrospection after it's happened thin..."

"tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question who they're going to be leaving it for I don't get to see it until I open the book foreign that's been left for you is what is one beli..."

"I think there's a bit of a hangover from the social media era yeah and how that played out where there was this new technology we all rushed into it thinking it was um all positive and as the experime..."