Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., Author at Tiny Buddha

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Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a researcher, author, and leadership consultant who helps people elevate their internal operating systems so they can transformationally become better. He is the author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and the upcoming Becoming Better: The Groundbreaking Science of Personal Transformation. Learn more at www.ryangottfredson.com.

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The Surprising Reason Many People Are Still Stuck

By Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D.

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~Anaïs Nin

I never imagined I’d be fired.

It wasn’t because I didn’t have the qualifications or experience. In fact, I had built a successful academic and consulting career. I had studied leadership, organizational behavior, and human development. I had read the right books, taken the right classes, built the right résumé. I was, by all appearances, doing all the right things.

But after …