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Featured Rebroadcast of A Virtual Author Talk with Adam Alter Online
How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
Available to watch via Library Website or here.
Almost everyone feels stuck in some way. Whether you’re muddling through a midlife crisis, wrestling writer’s block, trapped in a thankless job, or trying to remedy a fraying friendship, the resulting emotion is usually a mix of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, anger, and numbness. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The solution to becoming unstuck rests on a process that Alter calls a friction audit—a systematic procedure that uncovers why a person or organization is stuck and then suggests a path to progress. The friction audit states that people and organizations get unstuck when they overcome three sources of friction: HEART (unhelpful emotions); HEAD (unhelpful patterns of thought); and HABIT (unhelpful behaviors).
Despite the ubiquity of friction, there are many great “unstickers” hidden in plain sight among us and Alter shines a light on some exceptional stories to share their valuable lessons. Artfully weaving together scientific studies, anecdotes, and interviews, Alter teaches us that getting stuck is a feature rather than a glitch on the road to thriving, but with the right tweaks and corrections we can reach even our loftiest targets.
About the Author: Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. In 2020 he was voted professor of the year by the faculty and student body at NYU’s Stern School of Business and was among the Poets and Quants 40 Best Professors Under 40 in 2017. He is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Irresistible, and Drunk Tank Pink.
Check out The Anatomy of a Breakthrough and Alter’s other work in our collection here.
- Date:
- Monday, December 29, 2025
- Time:
- All Day Event
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Branch:
- ONLINE
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://libraryc.org/monmouthcountylib/31823
- Audience:
- Adult All Ages
- Categories:
- Author Talk Rebroadcast Literature and Writing Virtual
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