How to Fight Languishing (at Work and Everywhere Else) | Adam Grant
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.2 | Hey gang, one of the most widely shared articles in recent memory was in New York Times |
| 0:16.7 | op-ed piece written by my friend Adam Grant. |
| 0:20.3 | The headline read, there's a name for that blah you're feeling. |
| 0:24.2 | It's called languishing. |
| 0:26.1 | So many people sent this to me. |
| 0:28.0 | It hit a nerve in a big way. |
| 0:30.7 | I think that's because so many of us have been feeling a nameless on we a general sense |
| 0:36.5 | of being off in large measure due to the pandemic, of course. |
| 0:41.4 | So today we're bringing Adam on to talk about what languishing is, how to spot it and |
| 0:45.9 | how to fight it with a particular emphasis on how to deal with languishing as it pertains |
| 0:51.6 | to our work life. |
| 0:53.6 | This is actually the first in a five part series we're doing on work. |
| 0:57.6 | We're calling it the work life series and it's all about how to work safely and successfully |
| 1:02.4 | with minimal suckiness. |
| 1:05.6 | Many of us of course spend more time with our work colleagues than anybody else in our |
| 1:09.7 | lives, including spouses, kids, friends and relatives. |
| 1:12.6 | So in this series, we're going to talk about a whole range of hot button issues, including |
| 1:16.6 | productivity, imposter syndrome, our relationship with technology, how to give feedback, how |
| 1:21.8 | to handle jerks, how to approach sensitive diversity issues, and of course, how to knit |
| 1:27.2 | meditation and mindfulness and compassion into all of this. |
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