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Why It’s Good to Get Stuck
Embrace the stuck.
Here’s the truth about my writing:
I don’t wake up every day with something interesting to say. I do a good job sometimes of stretching the insights and experiences I have into weeks or even months of writing, but the truth is that I’ve kind of boiled down my life philosophy to a few key principles.
A devotion to mastery. An obsession with being better than I was yesterday — almost to a fault. A non-attachment to my own success and failure. Balance in and out of my work. Family. Resilience. These are the things I really believe in.
The thing is, sometimes it’s the day I have to write the newsletter and I don’t really want to talk about those things. I don’t feel like it. I get tired. I worry about sounding more like a preacher on a soapbox than a grappler who’s trying to think on paper.
I sometimes feel like stopping would be easier than continuing.
I get stuck.
Today, we’re talking about embracing the stuck and how to unstick yourself the right way.
You’re stuck because you multi-task.
When I get stuck, it’s a terrible experience.
Stuckness — thinking about too many things — leads to:
