%% #📓 #🎥 #🟠 %% **Title:** How to stop languishing and start finding flow **Author:** [[Adam Grant]] **Citation:** Grant, A. (2021, August). *How to stop languishing and start finding flow* [Video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_how_to_stop_languishing_and_start_finding_flow --- # Summary Languishing is an emotional state that can disrupt focus and dampen motivation and is a risk factor for depression. # Key Ideas - Languishing feels like your muddling through your days and just 'meh' - Toxic positivity = pressure to always be optimistic and grateful - [[Best predictor of well-being is not optimism, it's flow]] - [[Theory of Peak Flow]] - [[time confetti]] - Antidote to languishing doesn't have to be something productive, it can be something joyful. ## My Questions & Thoughts --- # Quotations > [[We need to treat uninterrupted blocks of time as treasures to guard.]] # Other References ## Tags