Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to get unstuck and unlock your potential

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The amount of research he did to write this book is also followed up at the end for further reading. Adam Alter marries research-based solutions with genuine insight. This book is an invaluable guide to turning hurdles into breakthroughs."— Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor of marketing and author of Adrift Join us for a conversation between NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway and bestselling author Adam Alter, where they’ll discuss: Over the next two decades, he became a highly respected researcher and made some notable discoveries in the field of immune regulation. It was slow, painstaking work, identifying the myriad different receptors that govern the human immune system, decoding the structure of their proteins and inferring how they functioned together. After the debut of his 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison spent 42 years writing a follow-up—only to leave it unfinished when he died in 1994. Truman Capote, by the time of his death in 1984, was still working on his self-hyped novel “Answered Prayers”—decades after publishing his 1965 masterpiece, “In Cold Blood.” Fran Lebowitz has been wrapping up a book since the year Ellison died.

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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William McRaven (2017) If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. When Jim Allison received a call from Dr. Jedd Wolchok, asking him to come to his office, he was puzzled at first. As a researcher, he rarely ventured into the clinical part of the hospital. Yet when he opened the door and saw his colleague sitting with a young woman whose emotion was clearly marked on her face, he immediately understood and tears began to fill his eyes.

It’s tempting to surround yourself with people who are both competent and similar to yourself, but that’s a mistake. The best way to capitalize on the value of other people is to consult with those who are fundamentally different from you. The same is true in the worlds of business, art, and film-making: before you strike gold, you need to spend a period of time exploring different options, approaches, and techniques. According to one study, most of us experience at least one hot streak during our careers—a period of unusual progress and consistent success—and those periods almost always follow a burst of exploration, followed by a concerted attempt to exploit or mine the best option that emerges during that first phase. The lesson from Berkoff and these hot streaks: assume nothing till you’ve considered the alternatives, and once you’ve sketched the lay of the land, pursue the best option with laser focus. 5. Different is often better than good. Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds. A few months before, the woman had terminal cancer, but she had just been told that she was in remission. Today, more than a decade later, she remains cancer free and works as a fitness instructor. It was a breakthrough of monumental proportions and one that would make Allison world famous. We often hear stories of outsiders who seem to come from nowhere to revolutionize a field and that does happen, but the starting point for any breakthrough is always a deep well of expertise. You have to understand the problems of a particular domain before you can begin to solve them and recognize a truly novel solution. Healthy Skepticism

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Adam Alter marries research-based solutions with genuine insight. This book is an invaluable guide to turning hurdles into breakthroughs. * Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor of marketing and author of Adrift * When striving for new ideas, do as Dylan did by taking two or more good but disparate concepts, and seeing if you can merge them to form a novel recombination. That’s the origin of many successful businesses and creative products, and it’s a much lower, attainable bar than revolutionary originality. 3. Pause to move forward. Adam Alter marries research-based solutions with genuine insight. This book is an invaluable guide to turning hurdles into breakthroughs." —Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor of marketing and author of Adrift La solución propuesta por el autor se basa en un proceso que él llama: auditoría de fricción, un procedimiento sistemático para entender por qué una persona u organización está estancada y cómo avanzar superando tres fuentes de fricción: las emociones inútiles, los patrones de pensamiento inútiles y los comportamientos inútiles. To understand the anatomy of a breakthrough case, it’s helpful to think of the human body as a castle. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, compares immunization to reinforcing such a stronghold against assault.A deeply researched and compelling guide to breaking through the inevitable obstacles on the path to meaningful accomplishment."— Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work