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Fighting that "Meh" Feeling of Languishing

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Key to Finding Mastery

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.

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