The key to finding mastery, especially when you're kind of in this sort of mess state, is to look for these sort of just manageable difficulties in life. And i realize this was actually why i was drawn in to word games in the first place. It's really easy to get that rush playing a seven letter word. Even when you're languishing. Rigt can look at seven tiles, rearrange them and do the anagram untili find the bingo. I wanted to keep the sense of mastery going. Only i was exhausting myself and then waking up in the morning regretting it. The experience of languishing is is aimlessness and joylessness.
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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