📑 There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

Adam Grant explains that mental health is a spectrum and in the middle between florishing and depression is the feeling of languaishing. He describes how when we name such a condition that it starts to pop-up everywhere. In response, Grant suggests finding a way to get into a state of flow and carving out uninterrupted time.

Referencing gardening, Austin Kleon argues that the issue is not languishing, but rather lying dormant

I disliked the term “languishing” the minute I heard it.

I’m not languishing, I’m dormant.

Like a plant. Or a volcano.

I am waiting to be activated.

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It seems to me that the reason that so many of us feel like we’re languishing is that we are trying to flourish in terrible conditions.