When you are rushing to complete an action, but you feel mysteriously blocked, the cycle suggests alternatives to pushing harder. Chances are, you need to spend more time in one of the other phases.

American journalist, author, and filmmaker Sebastian Junger once wrote on the subject of “writer’s block”: “It’s not that I’m blocked. It’s that I don’t have enough research to write with power and knowledge about that topic. It always means, not that I can’t find the right words, [but rather] that I don’t have the ammunition.”7