What’s keeping you stuck isn’t the real problem

Below, Seth Godin shares five key insights from his new book, The Knot: Problems Can Be Solved. Seth is a best-selling author, an entrepreneur, and one of the world’s most influential thinkers on marketing, leadership, and creativity. He has written more than 20 books, including The Dip, Purple Cow, and This Is Marketing, and has published thousands of posts on his widely read daily blog. What’s the Big Idea? We often stay stuck because we confuse situations we must accept with problems we can solve, while dragging along old identities, imagined expectations, and sunk costs. Getting unstuck means seeing the problem clearly, deciding what the work is for, and letting go of whatever no longer serves that purpose. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Seth himself—in the Next Big Idea App, or buy the book. 1. Gravity is a situation. The moon is a problem. Problems can be solved. Mel Robbins helps us understand what a situation is. A situation is something we can’t do anything about; a situation is something we should accept and move on from. She says we should just let them. When we’re stuck with a situation, we can acknowledge it, accept it, and then use it as the fo…

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