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

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The author delivers consistently intriguing ideas, but he loses the thread of his argument, and a few of the cases he cites are not relevant to his point. With its insights and compelling narratives, this book is recommended for anyone seeking the means to free themselves from the clutches of inertia and embark on a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Allison spent decades studying the immune system before he hit on the insight that led to his miracle cure. He has never scored during the first two minutes of any game but has scored during every single other minute from three to ninety. Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something.

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One of the suggestions in this book is to take things slow, 'strategic pause' as it were when you are stuck in a rut.

I also loved the overall structure of the book, with an amazing list of 100 tips in the last chapter being the cherry on top. My only complaint while reading it was that it's quite long - and so, hard to remember each "tip" as you move through chapters. Dylan later admitted his song was a marriage of worlds—of Odetta’s antislavery hymn, of traditional folk, and of biblical rhetoric. Understanding breakthroughs requires some intimacy with immunology, but also familiarity with the realities of a virus that will be with us long-term, one that we will probably all encounter at some point.

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

But should such a mishap occur, there’s a good chance that “continuously training immune cells can be a really good thing,” Nicole Baumgarth, an immunologist at UC Davis, told me.However, armed with the right adjustments and corrections, we can surpass even our loftiest aspirations. A castle raid is worse if its inhabitants are slaughtered and all its jewels stolen; with vaccines in place, those cases are rare—many of them are getting replaced with lighter thefts, wherein the virus has time only to land a couple of punches before it’s booted out the door. Then this guide to the science of motivation and creativity in the face of obstacles just might be for you. By slowing down, he discovered that Becker’s tongue flicked out of his mouth in the direction he planned to serve, and so Agassi went on to dominate Becker’s serve and win nine of the next eleven matches they played against one another.

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We make strides on a project—whether it’s mastering a sport, changing careers or building a company—and then, we just don’t. I made so many notes while reading this book - Alter uses really interesting historical facts, stories and anecdotes to back up each of his "recipes" to finding your way out of a breakthrough.Over the years, they had spent billions on immunological approaches to cancer and weren’t ready to take another plunge. After perfecting the technique, he broke the world record, and soon every backstroke swimmer was using the same method. 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. Alter reveals how to turn sticking points into breakthroughs in pursuits as diverse as entrepreneurship, art, music, writing, athletics, friendship, and personal relationships. Alter is able to encapsulate each concept in a story that presents it in a way that makes it both easy to understand and amusing.