Languishing is not a disease or disorder, it's just kind of a lingering emotional state. It doesn't have the same urgency or intensity that we would associate with more urious mental challenges. People are about three times more likely to cut back on work when they're languishing. We also see that if you wanted to predict whois going to be depressed and anxious in the next few years, people who are languishing right now were at the greatest risk.
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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