You 2.0: How to Break Out of a Rut

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

There are times in life when the challenges we face feel insurmountable. Authors succumb to writer's block. Athletes and artists hit a plateau. People of a certain age fall into a midlife crisis. These are all different ways of saying: I'm stuck. This week, in the kickoff to our annual You 2.0 series, psychologist Adam Alter shares his research on why we all get stuck at various points in our lives, and how to break free.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:03.0	There are moments in any journey when things can feel interminable.
0:08.0	You show up to work every day, do the same job, meet the same people.
0:13.0	At home, you watch the dishes, clean the bedroom, do the laundry.
0:18.0	On weekends, you watch the same TV shows, go for the same walks, talk to the same relatives.
0:25.0	One day starts to look like the next.
0:28.0	Weeks blur into each other.
0:30.0	And then you start to wonder,
0:32.0	what am I really doing?
0:34.0	Where am I headed?
0:35.0	Am I making any progress at all?
0:38.0	We have different names for this phenomenon.
0:43.0	Writers say they are blocked.
0:46.0	Office workers talk about being in a rut.
0:49.0	People of a certain age call it a midlife crisis, but they are all different ways of saying,
0:57.0	I'm stuck.
0:59.0	Today we begin our perennially popular annual series, U2.0. In past years we have explored
1:08.6	ideas about how to communicate better or build stronger relationships. In the coming weeks we will explore a variety of
1:16.1	new ideas to help you thrive. This week on Hidden Brain, new research into the science of feeling stuck and powerful insights
1:29.4	into how to get unstuck. All of us have had moments in our lives when we feel stuck. We don't know what we want to do.
1:46.0	Or if we do know what we want, we don't know how to do it.
1:50.0	At New York University, psychologist Adam Altar studies the science of how to get unstuck.
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