GRANTED: Overcoming languishing and finding flow

September 2021

As the pandemic drags on, many of us are still languishing. Over the past year, I learned that the antidote doesn’t have to be something productive. It can be something playful.

Recently, I got back on stage for the first time in a year and a half to give a new TED talk. It's with a mix of childlike exuberance and mild adult embarrassment that I present my Mario Kart theory of moving from languishing to flow:

In solidarity,

Adam Grant, Ph.D.
Organizational psychologist at Wharton, author of THINK AGAIN, ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B, and host of WorkLife, a TED original podcast