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Hello and welcome back to Advice Session, a series here on Anything Goes where you send in your current dilemmas or anything that you want advice on and I give you my unprofessional advice. And today's topic is what to do when you're stuck in a rut. To be honest, I feel like I've been in and out of a rut consistently for the last 10 years of my life.
And I'm starting to wonder if that's just what adulthood is. Constantly teetering between being in a rut and having shit together. Which sounds a little bit pessimistic, but I don't mean it that way. I think... as you get older, shit gets real, you know? And when you're a kid, you don't even have a frontal lobe. It's like, you don't even know what's going on.
So life just seems less challenging for the most part. And then you become an adult and your frontal lobe develops so you can comprehend how complex life is. And then on top of that, of course, you have all these responsibilities. And it just, it gets harder and harder to, keep it together. Although I'm hoping that the frequency of being stuck in a rut goes a little bit something like this. Okay.
When you're a kid, like a kid, like five to 10 years old, You don't really get stuck in a rut very often because, again, you don't have a frontal lobe. And you also don't have responsibilities. And there are definitely tough moments as a kid. There's some horrible moments as a kid. But you don't really get stuck in a rut when you're a kid. So the rut frequency is low.
And then you get into your teenage years and into your young adult years. And, whoa, it feels like you're stuck in a rut all the time, which I think sort of makes sense because... Oh my God, there's a lot of changes happening. You're having a lot of thoughts and feelings for the first time because your frontal lobe is developing. It's a really tough time. It's a really confusing time.
Responsibilities are coming in at an alarming rate. It's all happening. It's all very overwhelming. It's your first time doing a lot of hard stuff. So you get stuck in a rut really easily. Life gets you down pretty easily. And then I'm hoping, because I can't say for sure because I'm 23, but I'm hoping that after that, things get easier and easier and easier until you die.
That's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that the frequency of getting stuck in a rut lightens up a bit over the next 30 to 40 years for me, crossing my fingers. I briefly paused this episode of Anything Goes to let you know that this episode of Anything Goes is presented by Amazon.
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To be honest, this topic today, what to do when you're stuck in a rut, is so relevant because I have been stuck in a little rut for the last few weeks. And I know I say that a lot. I don't just say it to be on theme, okay?
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