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A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even business models that prevent us from achieving our full potential.
Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a midlife crisis, wrestling writer’s block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying friendship, the resulting emotion is usually a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Anatomy of a Breakthrough is the roadmap we all need to escape our inertia and flourish in the face of friction.
Adam Alter has spent the past two decades studying how people become stuck and how they free themselves to thrive. Here he reveals the formula he and other researchers have uncovered. The solution rests on a process that he calls a friction audit—a systematic procedure that uncovers why a person or organization is stuck, and then suggests a path to progress. The friction audit states that people and organizations get unstuck when they overcome three sources of friction: HEART (unhelpful emotions); HEAD (unhelpful patterns of thought); and HABIT (unhelpful behaviors).
Despite the ubiquity of friction, there are many great “unstickers” hidden in plain sight among us and Alter shines a light on some exceptional stories to share their valuable lessons with us. He tells us about the sub-elite swimmer who unstuck himself twice to win two Olympic gold medals, the actor who faced countless rejections before gaining worldwide fame, the renowned painter who became paralyzed and had to relearn to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist, and Alter’s own story of getting unstuck from a college degree that made him deeply unhappy.
Artfully weaving together scientific studies, anecdotes, and interviews, Alter teaches us that getting stuck is a feature rather than a glitch on the road to thriving, but with the right tweaks and corrections we can reach even our loftiest targets.
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“As captivating as it is constructive. Adam Alter demystifies the science and practice of uncovering motivation, unlocking creativity, and unleashing change. If you’ve ever felt like you’re languishing, these pages hold the keys to regaining momentum.”
— Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author
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“Important, entertaining, practical, and timely. Alter reveals how to turn sticking points into breakthroughs in pursuits as diverse as entrepreneurship, art, music, writing, athletics, friendship, and personal relationships.”
— Arianna Huffington, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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About Adam Alter
Adam Alter is an assistant professor in the marketing department at the Stern School of Business, New York University, with an affiliated appointment in the psychology department. A native of Australia, Alter’s research focuses on how people reach the judgments and make the decisions that shape their lives, the intersection of behavioral economics, marketing, and psychology. He has lectured at numerous institutions, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. Alter’s work has been widely published, including in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and has been featured on PBS, and BBC, as well as in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Economist. He is also a guest blogger on the Psychology Today website. Alter received his BSc in Psychology from the University of New South Wales, where he won the University Medal in Psychology, and his MA and PhD from Princeton, where he held a Fellowship in the Woodrow Wilson Society of Scholars.