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**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
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# 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
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# Quotations
> [[We need to treat uninterrupted blocks of time as treasures to guard.]]
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