i love your mareo cart storys it gets to this factor of kind of mattering, right? Which is really about our social connection with other people and the kind of impact we're having on other people. And so talk about why mattering can be so important for a kind of popping you out of languishing. I've played mario cart for three decades now, on and off. But in this situation, my sister was expecting, for the first time, she's actually expecting twins. There's literally nothing i can do to help her. And i feel like, ok, well,. this is something i can do now to maybe relive some of our favourite childhood memories
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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