Feeling Unmotivated? Here’s How to Get Out of the Rut

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Worker disengagement is on the rise around the world. Even those of us who generally like our jobs sometimes find it hard to muster energy and focus. So what's the key to regaining motivation? Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and research associate Robin Abrahams share a four part process to help you get your groove back: detachment, empathy, action and reframing. They offer simple tips like thinking in the third person, helping others, and gamification to help get back on track. Groysberg and Abrahams are the authors of the HBR article "Advice for the Unmotivated."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBRIDR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. Okay, let's all be honest with each other for a minute. Yes, if you're listening to
0:49.6	this podcast, you're probably someone who cares a lot about your work and career.
0:54.0	I hope you can tell that I care a lot about mine.
0:57.0	But there will come days, maybe even months or years,
1:00.0	when we just aren't feeling it.
1:02.0	We've lost motivation. we're burnt out, or just bored.
1:06.0	We're going through the motions of our jobs but not enjoying them or excelling in the ways we could be.
1:11.0	This happens everywhere from the front lines to the
1:14.4	C-suite. Most of the advice about how to address the problem is directed at
1:19.2	managers and organizations, how they can get us more engaged.
1:23.8	But is it possible for us to snap ourselves out of these ruts?
1:27.6	Our guests today say there is, and they've developed a four-step process for doing so.
1:32.3	They're here to walk us through it.
1:34.0	Robin Abrahams is a research associate at Harvard Business School and Boris Grosberg is professor at
1:39.5	Harvard Business School. Together they wrote the HBR article,
1:43.1	Advice for the Unmotivated.
1:45.2	Robin Boris, welcome.
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