[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]], [[Impact]] - People: [[Adam Grant]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3zPgyvCiJI --- ## Summary - [[Find your focus]]. Break out of aimless possibly destructive routines. - [[Absorb yourself in the meaningful purpose of making impact, not in the monotonous process of doing a task]]. - [[Strive to feel something. Earn it.]] - Achieve [[Flow state|Flow]] through [[Mastery]], [[Self-understanding|mindfulness]], and [[Impact|mattering]]. - [[Peak flow depends on active participation in the real world]]. - [[We find joy and purpose through progress]]. To honour the art of "doing", rather than the act of "did". - Avoid creating [[Time confetti]], as "[[Time confetti is the enemy of both energy and excellence]]". - "[[Our peak moments of flow is having fun with the people you love]]." - "[[When you're ready, you can start finding the flow that lights the path out of the void]]." ## Notes - Have a "to don't" list. For example, don't look at your phone until you've completed your morning routine. - [[Languishing]] - A sense of emptiness, stagnation, and ennui. - "[[When you're languishing, it just feels like you're muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield.]]" - When you're languishing, life seems to lose purpose as you walk aimlessly from one day to the next. - Where you can't really remember anything meaningful. - Your day and your yesterdays could only be described as "meh". - "[[Acute anguish gives way to chronic languish]]." - [[Languishing]] is like the forgotten step child of mental health. Largely ignored but powerful when identified. - "[[I've never seen people so excited to talk about their utter lack of excitement]]." - "[[We were looking for bliss in a blah day, and purpose in a perpetual pandemic]]." - [[Find your focus]]. Break out of aimless possibly destructive routines. - Never become indifferent to your own indifference. - [[Strive to feel something. Earn it.]] - Sometimes it's difficult to identify [[Languishing]] because it's a taboo topic to talk about - one that's succumb to "toxic positivity". - "The best predictor of well-being was not optimism, it was [[Flow state|Flow]]." - [[Flow state|Flow]] is the total absorption into an activity where you may lose track of time and you might even lose your sense of self. - "Flow is the appeal of a Netflix binge." - "Binging is passive engagement in a fictional world. [[Peak flow depends on active participation in the real world]]." - [[Flow state|Flow]] can be summarized by 3 conditions: [[Mastery]], [[Self-understanding|mindfulness]], and [[Impact|mattering]]. - [[We find joy and purpose through progress]]. To honour the art of "doing", rather than the act of "did". - [[Every small will is a step closer to mastery]]. [[Mastery is built on top of a mountain of small wins]]. - Mastery depends on mindfulness. To focus your full attention on a single task. - Focus is disrupted when we aimlessly switch contexts. - We create [[Time confetti]] - Where meaningful moments of our lives get shredded into increasingly tiny, useless pieces. - "[[Time confetti is the enemy of both energy and excellence]]". - [[Flow resides in the articulation of your boundaries]]. - "[[Treat uninterrupted blocks of time as treasures to guard]]." - To achieve peak flow, mattering must also be considered as a complement to mastery and mindfulness. - [[Absorb yourself in the meaningful purpose of making impact, not in the monotonous process of doing a task]]. - "[[Know the people who make your work matter. Know their names, their faces, and their stories.]]" - [[Combat helplessness with helpfulness]]. - "[[Love is not the frequency of communication. It's the depth of connection.]]" - "The antidote to [[Languishing]] does not have to be something productive. It can be something joyful." - "[[Our peak moments of flow is having fun with the people you love]]." - "[[When you're ready, you can start finding the flow that lights the path out of the void]]." ## Original ![[How to stop languishing and start finding flow-1.jpg]] ![[How to stop languishing and start finding flow-2.jpg]] ![[How to stop languishing and start finding flow-3.jpg]]