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How to Get Unstuck — with Adam Alter

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

CHAPTER

The Importance of Slowing Things Down

There's a confusion in the brain between being physically trapped and being mentally stuck or emotionally stuck. I spend a lot of time in the book talking about how to strategically slow things down. Lionel Messi was famously anxious before soccer matches, so he developed this technique: He would amble around the center circle of the field and just watch everyone else play. And that made him more effective later on.

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