GRANTED: Overcoming languishing and finding flow
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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:
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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