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How to get unstuck, with Adam Alter, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Creative Cliff Illusion

Part of it is pacing yourself. Is a really interesting phenomenon known as tellio anticipation, which is literally the anticipation of the end. And so what we're supposed to do with protracted goals is to sort of work out either explicitly or implicitly at the beginning of that process, how much energy will I need in total and how should I best apportion that energy across the course of the goal? But that's a really difficult problem and there's often a lot of uncertainty. So instead of just thinking of the goal as one big goal, you break it down or bracket it more narrowly into sub goals. If you make those chunks small enough, you sort of lose the middle, you eradicate the

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