Roxanne Jones: It's hard to admit that you're going through tough times. This is the problem of what's called toxic positivity, right? Yot's a talk about toxic positivity and why it makes it hard to talk specifically about an emotion like languishing. "I think thay made it really difficult for people to say, you know, honestly, kind o, eh?" she says.
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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