i think this is so powerful because i think, you know, it raises this questionof where languishing comes from in the first place. Once you recognize that you've languished before, you can learn lessons from your own past resilience. And then maybe you'rein a better position to learn how to stop languishing. You don't have to get advice from some one else. You might actually gain some wisdom from your ownPast experiences. The power of naming emotions would be the the matthew leberman research hich deals with phobia spiders and their physiological reaction when they are approached by them.
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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