STUCK IN A CLOSED FEEDBACK LOOP

How is it that a person gets stuck in life? What does this metaphor actually refer to and mean? Essentially it means that what they want, they cannot get. When the person sets a goal, works out a strategy, and then sets out to enact the solution, he finds himself doing something that does not work. He then repeats it and it still does not work. And the more it does not work, the more and harder he tries ... only to discover that it still does not work. At that point the person will often say, “I am stuck.”

Now there are different kinds of being stuck. In this case, the person is actually stuck in a very special way. He is stuck in an ineffective strategy. She now has a pattern of “doing more of the same” which drives her deeper and deeper into a rut. She is in a loop— repeating it endless without achieving her objective.