Languishing – uninspired and aimless everyday life
"failing to make progress or be successful." – Definitionen Oxford Languages
Collection by Stephanie A Kowalski
MIT Sloan Management Review
Don’t Let Quiet Quitting Harm Your Career
5 min · · Rather than quietly disengaging at work, employees should speak up, seek feedback, and strive for excellence. · Shared by 156, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Josh Bersin
TED Talks
6 things people do around the world to slow down
3 min · · Is living too fast turning your life into a blur? Catch your breath by trying out these calming traditions from other countries and cultures, says writer Carl Honoré. · Shared by 13, including Stephanie A Kowalski
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society
3 min · · Tiredness of life is a distinct form of suffering in which life seems stripped of meaning. · Shared by 14, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Harvard Business Review
You Checked Out at Work. Here’s How to Check Back In.
4 min · · If you’re unhappy at work, you already know that feeling can grow rapidly for a variety of reasons. In the current economic climate where job stability feels uncertain, professionals who had… · Shared by 167, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Fast Company
Gen Z isn’t ‘quiet quitting’—they’re grappling with a lack of interpersonal connection
· Gen Z makes up about 13% of the U.S. workforce and many of us have never experienced a pre-pandemic office at all. · Shared by 188, including Thomas Pleil, Stephanie A Kowalski
Ness Labs
Why we wait: Understanding the emotions behind procrastination
4 min · · Procrastination is your body and your brain trying to communicate a state of emotional struggle. Ignoring that message leads to more negative emotions, but embracing procrastination and trying to… · Shared by 1908, including Touche Theories, Stephanie A Kowalski
TIME
Stop Spending Money to Avoid Uncomfortable Emotions
3 min · · Happiness expert Jenn Lim on why we misunderstand the relationship between spending money on ourselves and our emotional wellbeing. · Shared by 167, including Stephanie A Kowalski
VICE
How to Support a Loved One Going Through Depression
4 min · · Being there for someone who’s not OK can be extremely taxing. Here's how not to lose yourself in the process. · Shared by 358, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Ness Labs
Change fatigue: When our brain’s adaptive capacity is depleted
4 min · · We are experiencing change fatigue at an unprecedented scale. The cognitive system that allows us to deal with acute stressful situations has been drained. Our “mental surge capacity” is depleted. · Shared by 1168, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Stephanie A Kowalski
Harvard Business Review
Are Our Brains Wired to Quiet Quit?
4 min · · While the term “quiet quitting” may be new, what’s happening is just the latest expression of a fundamental aspect of human nature: In the face of persistent and inescapable stressors, people often… · Shared by 368, including Kate Nasser, Stephanie A Kowalski, Guy Kawasaki, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Antonio Vieira Santos
The New Yorker
The Year in Quiet Quitting
5 min · · A new generation discovers that it’s hard to balance work with a well-lived life. · Shared by 208, including Ed Zitron, Stephanie A Kowalski
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Languishing: what to do if you’re feeling restless, apathetic or empty
4 min · · Almost 10% of people have reported experiencing ‘languishing’ during the pandemic. · Shared by 299, including Stephanie A Kowalski
derstandard.de
"Languishing": Dahinsumpern im Blues der Pandemie
5 min · · Wenn alles anders wird, braucht der Mensch neue Wörter. Seine Wahrnehmung der Realität wird durch Sprache geformt. Und deshalb braucht eine neue Realität manchmal neue Begriffe, gerade um Gefühle… · Shared by 4, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Apple Podcasts
WorkLife with Adam Grant: We should allow sad days, not just sick days on Apple Podcasts
· Show WorkLife with Adam Grant, Ep We should allow sad days, not just sick days - Jul 27, 2021 · Shared by 6, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Austin Kleon
I’m not languishing, I’m dormant
5 min · · The reason that so many of us feel like we’re languishing is that we are trying to flourish in terrible conditions. · Shared by 293, including Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Gabriele, Todd Henry, John Hagel, Felix M, Kyle Bunch, Anna Jane Joyner, Jason Silva, John Paul Caponigro, Stephanie A Kowalski, Todd Kashdan, Nir Eyal, Adam Grant
NPR
Emotions
1 min · · We offer you a mind-blowing alternative explanation for how emotions get made with a bizarre lawsuit, where a child dies in a car accident, and her parents get sued by the man driving the other car. · Shared by 6, including Stephanie A Kowalski