Hey there listeners, Dr. Sanjay Gupta here.

This week we're sharing an episode of The Happiness Lab from Pushkin.

Now in this episode, Laurie Santos helps us understand that listless middle ground between

depression and flourishing, otherwise known as languishing, and what we need to do to

escape it.

You're going to hear from psychologist and writer Adam Grant who you may remember from

season one of Chasing Life.

Adam talks about his own experience with languishing and how a game of Mario Kart helped him

find his path again.

You can hear more from The Happiness Lab wherever you get your podcasts.

I hope you enjoy the episode.

Many of the difficult feelings we've talked about over the course of this season of The

Happiness Lab are at the extreme edges of our emotional spectrum.

So far we've mostly focused on emotions that feel powerful and profound.

Think the raging fires of anger and the deep sorrow that comes with grief.

But today I want to address an equally problematic feeling that's kind of in the middle.

It's an emotional state we don't usually talk about.

Partly because we don't have great words for it.

But even though it's pretty nondescript, this middling listless feeling is very much

worth paying attention to.

It's a not so nice experience that many of us have gone through, especially in the past

few years.

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