I am stuck. Quite often, actually. For me, getting stuck is most often a problem when trying to generate an idea or when writing a paper. I don't break loose until the deadline is imminent or until I find a way to separate the process from the end result. When writing a paper, that generally means writing out pieces in pencil, or saving a separate "Work In Progress" Word document.
I don't know if this is a common problem, but for me I think it revolves around the fact that I never truly learned the process of iterative improvement. I generally worked on one draft, and when that was finished, I was done. I missed learning the skill of quickly getting an idea generated, then getting feedback, then quickly getting an outline generated, then getting feedback, then quickly getting a draft generated... feedback, 2nd draft, feedback, 3rd draft, and so on. "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."* Trying to go straight to the complex system results in getting stuck.
*Known as Gall's Law, from John Gall's book Systemantics
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