In the first week or two it had been read, i don't know, five or six million times. It was all over social media. I was seeing celebrities share it. Then prince harry talked about it in brodcast. For months after the article came out it wass closest i've ever come to something going virel. And so i basically cleared my calendar when i got off the phone with her and started writing. You know, what was the response like? Because in my twitter feet at least, it was pretty incredible.
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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