At first it was just frustration. I felt like i was mentally beating myself up. And even when i don't to be playing ike another game of words with friends, i still find myself slipping into it. It's one thing to binge watch a season, if you're kind of enjoying it and like blowing off, but it's another if it's giving you this gross feeling. My deep dive in early 20 20 was re watching season three of jersey shore and then ending it,. Like, it was just gross and yucky. This is out of character. Who are you? Who is this this person who's taken over my brain?
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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