In the midst of the covet 19 pandemic, a scientific interest in the importance of languishing has come back into fashion. One of the scholars who's thinking most carefully about this yuki emotion happens to be one of my favorite psychologists, podcasters and colleagues, adam grant. When Adam's not teaching at wharton business school, he's writing books like think again, the power of knowing what you don't know, and give and take, why helping others drives our success. He's also the host of the fantastic ted podcast, work life with adam grant, which is about the science of making work not suck.
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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