Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

How many people are fearless in the face of imminent death, while doing everything in their power to avoid risk?

Plateau effects—like goal gradients—are everywhere.

With the ingredients labeled, the next step is to organize them.

On August 13, 2020, she uploaded a fourteen-minute YouTube video titled “Audition Storytime!

This is the heart of why lowering your standards makes sense: you open up the possibility of evolution as soon as you part with the idea that revolution is the only way forward.

Therefore, the athlete has to arrange his energy consumption per unit time with respect to a finishing point.”

Survival instinct suggests we do more rather than less when times are hard, and often doing more is counterproductive.

Experimentation is known as a divergent process.

The researchers began by gathering all sorts of data on each episode.