When i was adrift in my own state of languishing, i made all the classic mistakes. I'd try to push myself with will power alone to do tasks that i had little motivation to complete. Psychologist adam grant, however, figured out a better solution. He was rescued from languishing by a pair of plumbers, mario and luigi. When we get back from the brake, we'll hear some of those solutions.
Psychologist and writer Adam Grant used every second of his day to the fullest... until he was struck by feelings of emptiness and stagnation. His sleep patterns changed, his productivity dipped, he found himself breaking his own rules by aimlessly watching Netflix. Adam decided this listless middle ground between depression and flourishing was "languishing" and he needed to escape it fast.
The author of the #1 NYT bestselling book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (www.adamgrant.net/thinkagain), and host of TED's Work Life podcast (https://tedtalks.social/WLAdam) says we ignore this "meh" feeling at our peril and explains how he fought back against languishing...with a game of Mario Kart.
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