Languishing
How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
(Sprache: Englisch)
“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your...
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“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden PotentialIf you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . .
If you feel an inner void—like something is missing, but you aren’t sure what . . .
Then this book is for you.
Languishing—the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning—can be easy to brush off as the new normal, especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. It is not a synonym for depression and its attendant state of prolonged sadness. Languishers are more likely to feel out of control of their lives, uncertain about what they want from the future, and paralyzed when faced with decisions. Left unchecked, languishing not only impedes our daily functioning but is a gateway to serious mental illness and early mortality.
Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career studying the causes and costs of languishing—the neglected middle child of mental health. Now Keyes has written the first definitive book on the subject, examining the ripple effect of languishing on our lives before deftly diagnosing the larger forces behind its rise: the false promises of the self-help industrial complex, a global moment of intense fear and loss, and a failing healthcare system focused on treating rather than preventing illness.
Ultimately, Keyes presents a counterintuitive approach to breaking the cycles keeping us stuck and finding a path to true flourishing. Unlike self-improvement systems offering quick-fix mood
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boosts, his framework focuses on functioning well: taking simple but powerful steps to hold our emotions loosely, becoming more accepting of ourselves and others, and carving out daily moments for the activities that create cycles of meaning, connection, and personal growth.
Languishing is a must-read for anyone tempted to downplay feelings of demotivation and emptiness as they struggle to haul themselves through the day, and for those eager to build a higher tolerance for adversity and the pressures of modern life. We can expand our vocabulary for describing our inner experiences and deepest needs—and, with it, our potential to flourish.
Languishing is a must-read for anyone tempted to downplay feelings of demotivation and emptiness as they struggle to haul themselves through the day, and for those eager to build a higher tolerance for adversity and the pressures of modern life. We can expand our vocabulary for describing our inner experiences and deepest needs—and, with it, our potential to flourish.
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[ 1 ]What Languishing Looks Like
Paul was in seventh grade when the trouble started or at least when the phone calls to his parents from the principal really started to pick up. He and his classmates had all entered middle school the year before, but only for a few hours a day every other week, per the new pandemic restrictions in his district. They d missed all sorts of milestones graduation from their elementary school, a summer of fun in between, and an orientation in person at their new school because of the pandemic raging around them. Most of Paul s classmates had never even set foot inside the main building before September rolled around.
Any chance of making new friends from the other local elementary schools had slipped away within the first few weeks of sixth grade. If students were learning in person, they were all masked up and leaving before lunchtime; if they were on Zoom, not a single kid kept their camera on the whole day. They d never even seen their new teachers smile in real life their faces had been hidden by masks. It felt hopeless and impossible to connect with new people and make a fresh start.
By the time seventh grade rolled around, Paul and his friends, most of whom were left over from his elementary school days, had started making trouble. Small trouble, at first: horsing around in the hallway, speaking out of turn in class, sort of normal seventh-grade stuff, or so his parents thought. But then things started ticking upward. Various destructive TikTok trends were taking off in schools all around the country paper towel dispensers were getting ripped off walls, horsing around in the hallways turned into full-body tackles, and bathrooms were getting trashed on a regular basis. Paul kept getting caught for petty vandalism, low-level violence couched as fun. His grades were slipping. Nothing dramatic, such as regularly ditching school, was happening, but his grades had been A s and B s, and now there were a whole lot of C
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s sprinkled throughout his report card.
At home, things weren t much more hopeful. Paul was spending hours alone in his room, or if he did come out, he slunk around with his hoodie up, refusing to talk to his parents beyond a cursory hello or goodbye. The silence unsettled them; he could barely meet their eyes at dinner. When he came home from school, he d climb right into bed with his laptop, saying he had homework to do, but he also seemed to be missing school assignments left and right. He was just so still all the time, his mom told me, as if he didn t have the energy to move his limbs. It was unnerving. His high-achieving parents were distraught this wasn t the kid they knew.
Something about the isolation many kids feel at that time in their lives things in middle school are, at best, hormonal, confusing, painful, stressful, and anxiety producing was causing Paul to act out in ways he never had before. One day, to the horror of his parents, they found out that he d bought a real-looking fake gun and posted about bringing it to school on social media. His classmates had immediately told their teachers, and the school had gone into lockdown mode before 9:00 a.m. It was a joke of course it was a joke, the gun was just a toy, for God s sake, and he didn t even bring it in! he told his frantic mother. But that joke would get him expelled from school before noon that day.
Why would he do such a shocking thing? Paul s parents wondered. It was clear that, despite his hiding under his hoodie, he was screaming out to be seen. Underneath his defiant façade, he was feeling powerless and purposeless, more alienated than integrated, his parents began to realize. How, in this nonstop, disorienting, status-obsessed online world, could he feel that he liked most parts of his pe
At home, things weren t much more hopeful. Paul was spending hours alone in his room, or if he did come out, he slunk around with his hoodie up, refusing to talk to his parents beyond a cursory hello or goodbye. The silence unsettled them; he could barely meet their eyes at dinner. When he came home from school, he d climb right into bed with his laptop, saying he had homework to do, but he also seemed to be missing school assignments left and right. He was just so still all the time, his mom told me, as if he didn t have the energy to move his limbs. It was unnerving. His high-achieving parents were distraught this wasn t the kid they knew.
Something about the isolation many kids feel at that time in their lives things in middle school are, at best, hormonal, confusing, painful, stressful, and anxiety producing was causing Paul to act out in ways he never had before. One day, to the horror of his parents, they found out that he d bought a real-looking fake gun and posted about bringing it to school on social media. His classmates had immediately told their teachers, and the school had gone into lockdown mode before 9:00 a.m. It was a joke of course it was a joke, the gun was just a toy, for God s sake, and he didn t even bring it in! he told his frantic mother. But that joke would get him expelled from school before noon that day.
Why would he do such a shocking thing? Paul s parents wondered. It was clear that, despite his hiding under his hoodie, he was screaming out to be seen. Underneath his defiant façade, he was feeling powerless and purposeless, more alienated than integrated, his parents began to realize. How, in this nonstop, disorienting, status-obsessed online world, could he feel that he liked most parts of his pe
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Autoren-Porträt von Corey Keyes
Corey Keyes
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- Autor: Corey Keyes
- 2024, Internationale Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Masse: 13,9 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Crown
- ISBN-10: 0593735145
- ISBN-13: 9780593735145
Sprache:
Englisch
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With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential. Adam Grant, author of Hidden PotentialWith compassion, clarity, and raw honesty, Keyes explains the languishing-to-flourishing continuum, and how to break out of the ruts that keep us demoralized and worn down, improve our daily functioning, and find a deeply rooted sense of well-being. If you feel like you re running on empty, this book is for you. Angela Duckworth, author of Grit
Languishing combines decades of Keyes s own scientific research with powerful personal stories to offer an antidote to the feelings of emptiness and nihilism that plague modern humans. Love. Learn. Work. Pray. Play. Five ingredients that have the potential to transform a life. This book will change the way you think about pain and pleasure, our innate psychological needs and the behaviors that throw us off balance, and the path to holistic well-being in an overstimulating, overwhelming world. Anna Lembke, MD, author of Dopamine Nation
In this timely book, Corey Keyes equips us with the tools needed to reignite our passion for life, work, and relationships in a world that often leaves us feeling adrift. Embrace this book s wisdom and let it be the catalyst for your transformation toward a life well lived. Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global
Corey Keyes is the leading researcher studying flourishing and languishing. In this conceptually rich and deeply personal book, Keyes helps us to see that most people are languishing to some degree because we live in a society almost perfectly designed to interfere with some of our deepest needs. His sociological insights are profound. His recommendations will help individuals and societies to flourish.
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Jonathan Haidt, professor at NYU Stern School of Business, author of The Righteous Mind, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind
[Keyes] sets out in this perceptive guide to lead those who feel emotionally flattened onto a path toward flourishing . . . [and] carefully sketches the contours of a pervasive and sometimes-nebulous phenomenon. . . . Keyes s eye-opening musings will be a balm to those in need of a fresh perspective. Publishers Weekly
[Keyes] sets out in this perceptive guide to lead those who feel emotionally flattened onto a path toward flourishing . . . [and] carefully sketches the contours of a pervasive and sometimes-nebulous phenomenon. . . . Keyes s eye-opening musings will be a balm to those in need of a fresh perspective. Publishers Weekly
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