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How to get unstuck, with Adam Alter, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

The Importance of Talking to Others When You're Stuck

A plateau is really where the returns that you're getting from a particular strategy stop arriving or they shrink in size. They don't have to be that you stop making progress altogether, but you certainly slow down. One thing you advise is to talk to other people when you're feeling stuck, especially to people who are unlike yourself. You might get more entrenched in your stuckness by speaking to people like you because they'll magnify that stuckness.

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