#392. How to Fight Languishing (at Work and Everywhere Else) | Adam Grant
This episode officially marks the launch of the Work Life Series, a brand-new, five-part series that’s all about how to live better lives at work. In each episode, we’ll be hosting meditation teachers, thought leaders, and top-of-their-field scientists to explore how to better connect with coworkers, boost our on-the-job resilience, and bring mindfulness to our work. And to help you put into action what you learn here on the show, you can join our free Work Life Challenge: a new meditation challenge specifically designed to help you navigate your life at work, available exclusively in the Ten Percent Happier app. Download the app here or wherever you get your apps to join the Work Life Challenge for free.
To kick things off in the Work Life Series, we’ve got a longtime TPH fan favorite: Adam Grant. Adam is an organizational psychologist at The Wharton School and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including his most recent, Think Again. He is also the host of a hit podcast from TED called WorkLife. In this episode, Adam will talk about languishing, some of his ideas for what to do about it, why and how to rethink flexibility at work, and much more.
Please note: There are brief references to alcohol & substance abuse and multiple references to anxiety and depression in this episode.
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Other Media and Writing Mentioned:
- WorkLife with Adam Grant podcast
- Essay in The Wall Street Journal
- Column in The New York Times
- Ted Talk - “How to Stop Languishing and Start Finding Flow”
Other Resources Mentioned:
- Corey Keyes, “The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life”
- Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta”
- Catherine Price
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Daniel Kahneman
- Kurt Vonnegut, Bashers and Swoopers
- Sophie Leroy, attention residue
- Ernest Hemingway
- “Win Over an Opponent by Asking for Advice,” Katie Liljenquist & Adam D. Galinsky
- Farhad Manjoo, “Even With a Dream Job, You Can Be Antiwork”
- James Suzman, “The 300,000-year case for the 15-hour week”
- Sigmund Freud - “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ”
- Christoph Riedl and Anita Woolley, “Teams vs. Crowds: A Field Test of the Relative Contribution of Incentives, Member Ability, and Emergent Collaboration to Crowd-Based Problem Solving Performance”
- Michael Krause
- Kristen Shockley
- Émile Durkheim
- Meditative Story podcast
