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.

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.

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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 foundation for the work we are going to do.

But problems—all problems—can be solved. That’s why we call them problems. Getting to the moon is a problem because of gravity. We get stuck because we are looking at problems the wrong way. Sometimes we give up too soon, and other times, we waste enormous amounts of time fighting a situation.

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