Honestly this book reminds me to “Do the work” that I read recently. This is more scientific but easy to digest.
It is about how to deal with being stuck, with its different meanings
- you can’t make progress
- you are fixes in a place long enough to feel discomfort.
- your existing habits and strategies are not solving the problem.
Th overall summary is that action is the bigger unsticker.
It mentions different strategies to move forwards. From breaking down the goal is smaller chunks. We will always face plateaus and lifequakes.
Most of the times, we quit to early, just a few steps from the breakthrough. So just ask you, can I keep going? You are more creative than you think, at the first sight of difficulty, persevere. But, in for me this is the difficult thing, you dont have to persevere forever. You need to make some markers and assess: ie, give you 50% more time that you thought you would need.
Novelty is overrated (Google search, Amazon, etc) Patience and persistence solve poor-timing and allow not-quite-ripe ideas to mature.
If something comes to you quickly, it’s likely to come to other people in your culture just as quickly: question every decision, three times.
Dont let the small or unimportant problems to grow. Do preventive maintenance like the airplanes (ABC + checklists)
Slow down, do less. A threat is a challenge, embrace failure. Think of the worst scenario and you will realise that life goes on.
Maximizer (got the best outcome?) vs satisfacer (good enough?): Maximizer got stuck as they can’t know if they have the best solution. Satisfacer know what is good enough and moves on.
Make it simple, be flexible, less is more, perfect is the enemy of done, 100% original is impossible. And add diversity to your strategy.
So take action (use a noun not a verb), micro-schedule and put some constraints on it, move your body (take walks), be nonjudgemental (failing is ok), be curious and learn.