Mark Hamilton uses a movie scene about a man ready to shoot himself to explain why you feel stuck: you're trapped in specialization, doing daily task lists instead of building wealth and creating value. He asks whether your work actually creates something or just completes tasks.
There was a scene where a guy had a gun and was contemplating shooting himself because he felt trapped with no way out. His friend yelled, no. Remember when we were kids and the ball would get stuck in a tree? We'd yell do over. And we just play it over again. That's all you need to do now. A do over. The movie never answered the problem of their disillusionment of life. The writer sensed the hopelessness, but did not understand. We are all trapped in specialization. Reflect on your life, on your job. Are you building wealth and creating values? Or are you getting paid to accomplish a daily list of tasks? Failing to break free from specialization, failing to build wealth and create values, will have us feeling just like that character, trapped, thinking there is no way out.
