I’m not languishing, I’m dormant - Austin Kleon

We have no sense of meaning and little drive to pursue our life’s work. We stick to short-term goals just to free up enough space for us to return to the activities that are killing us, not in an absolutely physical manner, but a holistic one. Mind, body, spirit, and business under the lens of your life’s work.

Dans la vie, nous connaissons tous des temps morts. Leur fréquence est hors de notre contrôle. En revanche, leur utilisation l’est.

Languishing is the emotional experience of stalling.

Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a “symptom of deficient vitality,” and observed “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.”