The Psychology Master: The Colour That Makes You Attractive, How Your Name Determines Your Success & How To Become UNSTUCK In Your Marriage, Job, or Life!

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 gonna find out right now. Adam Alter, a New York Times bestselling author and psychologist. This episode is for people who are stuck in their careers, relationship, or any aspect of life. And how to become unstuck. the career model for how we live our lives professionally is broken. As you specialise, you have less variety in what you do, and there's a massive rise in loneliness and depression and anxiety, and part of the reason for that is we don't share our stuckness, and they also have no idea how common it is. So what is the relationship between perseverance or knowing when to quit? Research basically shows that it's a good idea to persevere beyond the point where you say this is hard and I feel stuck. How long you should do that is another question. And the best example of this is an idea known as the creative cliff illusion.

And it's this illusion where you That's when the good stuff comes, if you persevere. How do you teach someone to be that kind of person? I remember reading about the studies where people would rather take an electric shock. Than to sit idly on their own. It's a brilliant study. They've tried it already, so they know it hurts. But it's so aversive to just sit with our own thoughts for even half an hour. Two thirds of them go and start playing with this machine. So what we found is that we don't pay enough attention to what will be good for us, and that's often when we get stuck. What do we need to do then? If you want to be able to get unstuck quickly, the best thing you can do is

Have you ever been stuck? Are you stuck in an area of your life right now? I think you are. And I say that because I think to some degree We all are.

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