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- 1:33Speaker 2: have Adam Grant in the studio. We're talking about languishing. Adam,
- 1:37Speaker 2: thank you so much for taking a few minutes to
- 1:39Speaker 2: be with us today.
- 1:39Speaker 1: We really appreciate it.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Thank you. Andy.
- 1:41Speaker 4: I'd say I'm excited to be here, but I don't
- 1:43Speaker 4: know if that's appropriate given that we're going to talk
- 1:45Speaker 4: about languishing it.
- 1:46Speaker 2: So I just say, man, great illustration. That will make
- 1:52Speaker 2: more sense to podcast listeners in just a minute. For
- 1:54Speaker 2: the handful of you who are unfamiliar with Adam, Adam
- 1:58Speaker 2: has been Wharton's top rated professor get this for seven years.
- 2:01Speaker 2: He's an organizational psychologist. He's been recognized as one of
- 2:05Speaker 2: the world's ten most influential management thinkers. And perhaps where
- 2:10Speaker 2: you became familiar with his name is where I did.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Through his publishing, he's a number one New York Times
- 2:14Speaker 2: bestselling author with five books sold.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Millions of copies.
- 2:18Speaker 2: This month, we're going to talk about this viral piece
- 2:21Speaker 2: that he did on languishing.
- 2:23Speaker 1: It was and Adam, this must have taken you by surprise.
- 2:26Speaker 2: It was the most read New York Times article of
- 2:30Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, plus the most saved article across all
- 2:34Speaker 2: social media platforms. So for those of you who are
- 2:38Speaker 2: not familiar with this content, you are in for a
- 2:40Speaker 2: real treat. So Adam, give us again. I imagine you
- 2:45Speaker 2: were shocked by the response, right.
- 2:47Speaker 3: I was not prepared, that's for sure.
- 2:49Speaker 4: I had a feeling I was going to strike a
- 2:50Speaker 4: chord because it was a light bulb moment for me
- 2:53Speaker 4: to realize that I was languishing, and so I thought
- 2:56Speaker 4: it would resonate with some other people.
- 2:57Speaker 3: I had no idea what that was going to look like.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing.
- 3:00Speaker 2: So backing up just a little bit, give us a
- 3:02Speaker 2: little bit of background on the topic the word, and
- 3:06Speaker 2: you know where did this begin?
- 3:08Speaker 4: I think the early days of COVID were really dominated
- 3:11Speaker 4: by a sense of fear grief for a lot of people.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Loneliness.
- 3:15Speaker 4: And then at some point, I think probably in the
- 3:18Speaker 4: late spring early summer of twenty twenty, we went from
- 3:21Speaker 4: this acute anguish to more of chronic language. It was
- 3:24Speaker 4: that groundhog Day feeling that people were describing, where they
- 3:27Speaker 4: would say, you know, I'm having trouble concentrating, I'm in
- 3:29Speaker 4: a pandemic fog. And I didn't actually recognize it at first,
- 3:33Speaker 4: but I got a call from Tara Parker Pope at
- 3:36Speaker 4: the New York Times and she said, you know, I
- 3:37Speaker 4: keep hearing people talk about this vague feeling.
- 3:40Speaker 3: What is it?
- 3:41Speaker 4: And I started cycling through It's not depression. People still
- 3:44Speaker 4: have hope, it's not burnout, they still have energy.
- 3:48Speaker 3: What is it?
- 3:49Speaker 4: And I remembered this, this work by Corey Key as
- 3:51Speaker 4: a sociologist on languishing, and it just clicked. He defined
- 3:55Speaker 4: languishing as a sense of emptiness and stagnation, or you
- 3:58Speaker 4: might call it on we it feels like you are
- 4:02Speaker 4: just a little bit aimless and a little bit joyless.
- 4:05Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people have felt that
- 4:07Speaker 4: during the pandemic, because it feels like the world is
- 4:10Speaker 4: standing still.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Yep.
- 4:11Speaker 4: And I said, all right, maybe this is the neglected
- 4:14Speaker 4: middle child of mental health. Maybe this is the defining
- 4:18Speaker 4: emotion of twenty twenty one and now increasingly twenty twenty
- 4:20Speaker 4: two as well.
- 4:22Speaker 2: And so talk a little bit more, because I watched
- 4:25Speaker 2: your Ted talk, and for those of you listening at
- 4:27Speaker 2: as extraordinary Ted Talk, it's about like ten or eleven
- 4:30Speaker 2: minutes where you tell a lot of the story.
- 4:31Speaker 1: You're very funny, and the images are amazing.
- 4:34Speaker 2: So just talk a little bit about how this impacted
- 4:37Speaker 2: you personally, because again, this wasn't something you were observing
- 4:41Speaker 2: as much as you were experiencing with everybody else.
- 4:43Speaker 1: That's what makes this so fascinating.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Yeah, and I.
- 4:46Speaker 4: Should have known better, right as a psychologist, I study
- 4:48Speaker 4: this for a living.
- 4:49Speaker 3: I didn't even pinpoint it.
- 4:50Speaker 4: I think my peak moment of languishing, which is really
- 4:54Speaker 4: more like a trough than a peak, was I binged
- 4:57Speaker 4: a whole season of a show on Netflix. I got
- 4:59Speaker 4: to the last episode. I was like, wait a minute,
- 5:02Speaker 4: I think I've already seen this before, and I wasn't
- 5:06Speaker 4: even paying enough attention to really know if I had
- 5:08Speaker 4: or not. And this kind of muddling through the day,
- 5:12Speaker 4: right with not being energized as much as I would
- 5:15Speaker 4: have been by the things I was looking forward to,
- 5:17Speaker 4: even though you know, I still had some energy, not
- 5:21Speaker 4: feeling the same meaning and purpose in the task that
- 5:24Speaker 4: had brought that before. That was kind of the I
- 5:27Speaker 4: guess the hallmark of languaging for me.
- 5:29Speaker 2: And one of the things you talk about is that
- 5:31Speaker 2: you feel like this is for many people, maybe not all,
- 5:34Speaker 2: but for maybe most people, this is connected to work
- 5:38Speaker 2: because so many of us were in an environment, in
- 5:41Speaker 2: predictable environment to some extent in terms of work, and
- 5:43Speaker 2: then suddenly that's gone, even if we're working from home,
- 5:46Speaker 2: all of that's gone.
- 5:47Speaker 1: So how does this connect to work life?
- 5:49Speaker 4: I think actually one of the biggest causes of languishing.
- 5:52Speaker 4: I have not seen a direct study on this yet,
- 5:55Speaker 4: but I have a hunch that a lot of languishing
- 5:57Speaker 4: is coming from zoom fatigue. That if you look at
- 6:00Speaker 4: the research that Jeremy Beilinson and his colleagues have done,
- 6:03Speaker 4: one of the reasons that so many people have been
- 6:05Speaker 4: going through zoom fatigue is we sit still all day,
- 6:08Speaker 4: we sit twice as close to the camera as we should,
- 6:11Speaker 4: and we're flinching at these oversized virtual heads. We're not
- 6:14Speaker 4: moving around, and then we're also trying to read these
- 6:17Speaker 4: glitchy facial expressions in body language. And you know, I
- 6:21Speaker 4: don't know that that necessarily causes complete burnout right where
- 6:25Speaker 4: you're so depleted that you have nothing left to give,
- 6:27Speaker 4: but it definitely makes you feel blah.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Oh it's terrible. Yeah.
- 6:31Speaker 2: At the same time, now we've not everyone, but we've
- 6:34Speaker 2: begun moving, you know, back into the office. And you know,
- 6:37Speaker 2: I can speak for us. In some cases it's like, no,
- 6:40Speaker 2: you have to come back to work. So there's this
- 6:42Speaker 2: love hate thing. I love being a home I love
- 6:44Speaker 2: the flexibility. I hate zoom. I'm not as productive. I'm
- 6:47Speaker 2: working all the time rather than some of the time.
- 6:49Speaker 2: I don't get the twenty to forty five minute decompression
- 6:52Speaker 2: driving home. But I don't want to come back to work.
- 6:55Speaker 2: So you know, what do we do?
- 6:58Speaker 3: I don't know. I just study this.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Ye, thank you, good luck. Thanks for bugging with us today, Adam.
- 7:05Speaker 3: I mean, I think they're obviously the individual.
- 7:07Speaker 2: What are your suggestions as an employer who again, personally
- 7:10Speaker 2: we're dealing with this At the same time, we want
- 7:12Speaker 2: to be sensitive, you know, to all the new realities,
- 7:15Speaker 2: but we don't want to contribute to languishing in the
- 7:18Speaker 2: people that we employ and work with.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the most important first step that an
- 7:23Speaker 4: employer can take is to normalize the state of affairs,
- 7:27Speaker 4: right to talk about it, and to give people the
- 7:29Speaker 4: psychological safety to share what this experience has been like.
- 7:33Speaker 4: The number of people that after I wrote this article,
- 7:35Speaker 4: just said I sent an email to my boss. I
- 7:39Speaker 4: just forwarded the article and said it me, this is
- 7:42Speaker 4: what I'm experiencing. When people can open up about what
- 7:46Speaker 4: they're going through, it's a lot easier to figure out, well,
- 7:48Speaker 4: what are the causes for us, and how might we
- 7:50Speaker 4: be able to solve this together. And we did an
- 7:52Speaker 4: episode of my work Life podcast on this last summer
- 7:54Speaker 4: where there was an incredible example of a manager who said,
- 7:57Speaker 4: it's okay to call in sick. It's also okay to
- 8:00Speaker 4: call in sad and andy. What I loved about that
- 8:03Speaker 4: was not the idea that now you get five sad
- 8:06Speaker 4: days a year, Yeah, use them up.
- 8:07Speaker 3: By December, we're gonna take them away now.
- 8:09Speaker 4: It was the message that mental health is part of health,
- 8:13Speaker 4: and just as we would expect you to take care
- 8:15Speaker 4: of yourself if you got COVID or you broke your leg,
- 8:18Speaker 4: if you are languishing, if you're burned out, if you're
- 8:20Speaker 4: feeling depressed or anxious, we want you to prioritize self care.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And I think if that message is sent.
- 8:27Speaker 4: People are a lot more likely to work together to
- 8:29Speaker 4: figure out collective solutions to the problem. But the easiest
- 8:33Speaker 4: way to send it is actually for leaders to talk
- 8:36Speaker 4: about their own challenges right as a leader, for you
- 8:38Speaker 4: to say, you know what, I'm.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Kind of languishing right now.
- 8:40Speaker 4: Is anybody else there to say I'm taking a mental
- 8:43Speaker 4: health day or a recharge week, that signals to everybody
- 8:47Speaker 4: else in your team that that's okay.
- 8:50Speaker 2: For most people, I think it would be hard to
- 8:51Speaker 2: call in and say I'm sad. I think people just
- 8:54Speaker 2: lie and make up something else. But the point is,
- 8:56Speaker 2: as an employer, I need to create those pathways or
- 8:59Speaker 2: those on ramps and off ramps for people to be
- 9:02Speaker 2: able to, you know, maintain their dignity and at the
- 9:04Speaker 2: same time be able to take care of themselves when
- 9:07Speaker 2: there's nothing physically wrong or they can't point to something specific,
- 9:09Speaker 2: and not force them to have to make something up,
- 9:11Speaker 2: especially maybe in the transition back into the office and
- 9:15Speaker 2: you know, with all the other crazy stuff, So anything
- 9:18Speaker 2: more specific on that, because when I watched the Ted
- 9:20Speaker 2: talk and when I read your notes, I thought this
- 9:23Speaker 2: is a real thing. But like you, looking through the
- 9:25Speaker 2: Grittest Employer, I did find myself thinking this is real.
- 9:28Speaker 1: We should do something. But I found myself languished.
- 9:32Speaker 2: You know, I again, you know anything that's just top
- 9:35Speaker 2: of mind that hasn't been proven that you would suggest
- 9:37Speaker 2: we at least consider.
- 9:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there are a few things that are
- 9:40Speaker 4: probably helpful. One is I love this research that Leslie
- 9:43Speaker 4: Perlo did on blocking out quiet time and saying we're
- 9:47Speaker 4: going to give you three mornings a week where there
- 9:49Speaker 4: are no meetings and no interruptions so you can actually
- 9:52Speaker 4: get things done right. If languishing is stagnation, progress gives
- 9:56Speaker 4: you a sense of forward movement. But so many of
- 9:58Speaker 4: us have been pulled into commitments all day because everyone's
- 10:01Speaker 4: technically available all the time, that we feel like we're
- 10:04Speaker 4: constantly behind, and at some point you're just I'm never
- 10:07Speaker 4: going to get on top of my work.
- 10:09Speaker 3: Why bother trying?
- 10:11Speaker 4: So I think we need good boundaries that allow people
- 10:13Speaker 4: to protect time, to find flow, to get into that
- 10:16Speaker 4: zone of deep work where you can focus on a
- 10:18Speaker 4: task and actually finish something that matters to you. One
- 10:22Speaker 4: of the other organizational factors that we have a lot
- 10:24Speaker 4: of control over is flexibility, and the flexibility conversation andy
- 10:29Speaker 4: has mostly been about where are we going to work?
- 10:31Speaker 4: But what people care about even more is when and
- 10:33Speaker 4: how much.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Am I going to work? Right?
- 10:34Speaker 4: If people get the freedom to set their own schedules
- 10:37Speaker 4: and priorities to say, actually, work may not be the
- 10:40Speaker 4: most important thing in my life, but I'm still professional,
- 10:43Speaker 4: I can be productive. I'm going to do a good job.
- 10:45Speaker 4: Here are the ideal hours I would want to set,
- 10:47Speaker 4: I think a huge opportunity. And frankly, we have now
- 10:51Speaker 4: a growing body of evidence that in a four day
- 10:53Speaker 4: work week, people can be just as productive, if not
- 10:56Speaker 4: more productive, than they were in five days. Right, last
- 10:59Speaker 4: time I checked, and you're the expert here, I have
- 11:01Speaker 4: never read scripture that says man must work five days
- 11:06Speaker 4: a week. Right, We know when rest is, but who
- 11:09Speaker 4: said a job has to be forty hours or eight
- 11:12Speaker 4: hour days? And my hope is that one of the
- 11:15Speaker 4: silver linings of this pandemic is that people start to
- 11:18Speaker 4: radically restructure what work looks like in our society.
- 11:22Speaker 3: What do you think about that well.
- 11:23Speaker 2: I think if we step back into a more agriculturally
- 11:27Speaker 2: driven world, we have no idea how they survive, right,
- 11:32Speaker 2: I mean, they could not have worked professionally as long
- 11:35Speaker 2: as we work because they would have starved to death. Right,
- 11:37Speaker 2: I mean just getting through life, you know, and then
- 11:41Speaker 2: on top of that figuring out how to earn a wage.
- 11:43Speaker 2: It's unimaginable to us. But in terms of rhythm, and
- 11:47Speaker 2: I think this is one of the things we all
- 11:49Speaker 2: agree on. Everybody has a rhythm, and not everybody's rhythm
- 11:52Speaker 2: is the same. And when you can create an organization
- 11:54Speaker 2: or organize organizationally to where people have the freedom to
- 11:57Speaker 2: find their rhythm. And if you hire great people with
- 12:00Speaker 2: strong work ethic that you're not having a check on.
- 12:02Speaker 2: If you have to check on, I'm probably a bad
- 12:03Speaker 2: hire to begin with, absolutely, because people's productive hours aren't
- 12:08Speaker 2: the same. So and I think that's one of the
- 12:09Speaker 2: great things about that the world we live in terms
- 12:12Speaker 2: of technology is the.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Potential for that is already there.
- 12:15Speaker 2: It's just a matter I think for some of us,
- 12:17Speaker 2: of changing our mindset about what work is and what
- 12:20Speaker 2: work looks like. Now this is related and you can
- 12:23Speaker 2: pass on this, and I think you alluded to this
- 12:25Speaker 2: in the Ted talk. You've created your own way of
- 12:29Speaker 2: allowing yourself to get into flow and not be distracted
- 12:31Speaker 2: by social media because this is a I mean for me,
- 12:35Speaker 2: I'm not pointing fingers.
- 12:36Speaker 1: This is a huge distraction.
- 12:38Speaker 2: And in order to stay and flow, it means I
- 12:41Speaker 2: have shut off or shut down or separated myself from
- 12:45Speaker 2: not only people, but the technology that competes for my flow.
- 12:48Speaker 1: What personally, how do you manage that?
- 12:51Speaker 4: My favorite habit is, along with my to do list,
- 12:54Speaker 4: I have a to doult list, which is a list
- 12:56Speaker 4: of rules I try not to break. And I say
- 12:59Speaker 4: try because always moments when I slip.
- 13:01Speaker 1: You're a parent, right exactly.
- 13:04Speaker 4: But the social media rule is I do not scroll
- 13:07Speaker 4: on social media unless there's literally nothing else I could
- 13:10Speaker 4: be doing. That means I don't pick up my phone
- 13:12Speaker 4: in bed at nighttime. It means that if I log in,
- 13:16Speaker 4: I log into post and then I lug right out.
- 13:20Speaker 2: So you literally log out of your social media accounts
- 13:23Speaker 2: I do.
- 13:23Speaker 3: I do.
- 13:24Speaker 2: So that means you can remember your password though, so
- 13:27Speaker 2: that eliminates that eliminates me.
- 13:29Speaker 1: I think, right, yeah, well you can store it, right, No,
- 13:34Speaker 1: but if I.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Honestly, if I had to sign back in, I would
- 13:38Speaker 2: pick up my phone, just set it down.
- 13:39Speaker 1: I don't want to mess with that.
- 13:41Speaker 4: It's an extra layer of fiction to tip the scales
- 13:44Speaker 4: in the direction that's probably beneficial. But that I mean,
- 13:46Speaker 4: it's it's such a simple step, right, But just saying, okay,
- 13:50Speaker 4: you know, if I actually do want to learn something
- 13:52Speaker 4: on social media because I follow people who challenge my thinking,
- 13:56Speaker 4: or because I want to see the feedback on something
- 13:58Speaker 4: I've posted, I will put that in my calendar.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Is a task.
- 14:01Speaker 4: Right, So instead of reading a chapter of a book today,
- 14:04Speaker 4: I want to spend half an hour.
- 14:05Speaker 3: You know, reading up on an issue on social media.
- 14:08Speaker 3: That's it's current.
- 14:09Speaker 4: That's now a learning task, right, as opposed to a
- 14:12Speaker 4: distraction from what I'm trying to accomplish.
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- 14:53Speaker 2: is growing your organization. The technology interruptions, and I say
- 14:57Speaker 2: interruptions the technology that I interrupt myself with when it
- 15:02Speaker 2: interferes with my flow, it causes me to experience languishing
- 15:07Speaker 2: because I'm back and forth, and I'm back and forth,
- 15:09Speaker 2: and I'm not as productive as I should be, and
- 15:11Speaker 2: oh no, it's three thirty already, and it just exacerbates this.
- 15:15Speaker 2: You know, even in a potentially productive day, it feels
- 15:18Speaker 2: like languishing.
- 15:19Speaker 4: And it's the I think you captured something really important there, Andy.
- 15:23Speaker 4: There was data even pre pandemics, suggesting that that the
- 15:26Speaker 4: average person was checking emails seventy four times a day
- 15:29Speaker 4: across devices seventy four times.
- 15:31Speaker 1: And they only have four emails.
- 15:33Speaker 3: I mean, this is out of control.
- 15:36Speaker 4: How do you ever get into a zone of dp
- 15:38Speaker 4: plow where you can fully concentrate. I think some of
- 15:41Speaker 4: the research I've read suggests that once you jolt yourself
- 15:44Speaker 4: or get interrupted out of one of those states, it
- 15:46Speaker 4: can often take ten or twenty minutes to get back
- 15:48Speaker 4: into it. And so you've basically given up on the
- 15:51Speaker 4: idea that you're ever going to fully focus on one thing,
- 15:53Speaker 4: which is disastrous for creativity and productivity, and to your point,
- 15:57Speaker 4: also is a great way to languish because you feel
- 15:59Speaker 4: like I can't, I'm getting nothing done right, What's wrong
- 16:02Speaker 4: with me?
- 16:03Speaker 3: And it's not you.
- 16:04Speaker 4: It's the fact that rapidly switching back and forth between
- 16:07Speaker 4: two tests interferes with your ability to do both of them.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because it dilutes purpose. And when I watched
- 16:12Speaker 2: the Ted talk. When I first was exposed to this
- 16:15Speaker 2: during the pandemic, I was extraordinarily busy and focused and
- 16:19Speaker 2: we pivoted our whole organization. So it wasn't the typical
- 16:23Speaker 2: pandemic experience, but I immediately identify with languishing in terms
- 16:28Speaker 2: of my self imposed interruptions to flow. Again, it's the
- 16:33Speaker 2: same experience, but in my case, I feel like sometimes
- 16:35Speaker 2: it's self imposed.
- 16:37Speaker 3: Again.
- 16:37Speaker 1: I would encourage all of you to watch the Ted.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Talk and again, as organizational leaders and as parents, now
- 16:43Speaker 2: we have a word, and now we have a definition,
- 16:45Speaker 2: which means we can identify it when it's happening to us.
- 16:48Speaker 2: And when we hear our kids or the people on
- 16:51Speaker 2: an organization begin to use some of this language, they
- 16:54Speaker 2: don't have a word for it.
- 16:55Speaker 1: Now we have a word for it as well.
- 16:57Speaker 2: And if there's anything we can do to help people
- 16:59Speaker 2: move beyond this and develop the disciplines to stay out
- 17:02Speaker 2: of this, then that's a huge investment not only in
- 17:05Speaker 2: them personally, but obviously in our organizations well, Adam, Unfortunately
- 17:08Speaker 2: for me and our podcast audience, that is all the
- 17:11Speaker 2: time we have today. Thank you so much for being here,
- 17:13Speaker 2: and to all of our listeners, we want to thank
- 17:15Speaker 2: you for joining us and invite you to check out
- 17:17Speaker 2: Adam's work at Adam Grant dot net.
- 17:20Speaker 1: That's Adam Grant dot net.
- 17:21Speaker 2: And be sure to visit Andy Stanley dot com where
- 17:24Speaker 2: you can download the Leadership Podcast application guide that includes
- 17:28Speaker 2: a summary of our discussion today as well as questions
- 17:31Speaker 2: for reflection or for group discussion, and join us next
- 17:34Speaker 2: month on the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast.
- 17:36Speaker 1: We will see you then