just like everything else that's put on this earth. We were planted here to grow. When we're

not growing and exploring, we feel like we are starting to die. And people talk about languishing

as if they feel like they're dying inside. On this episode of the psychology podcast, I had a very important chat with Corey Keyes.

Corey is a well-respected sociologist and psychologist who is a legend in the field of positive psychology.

Corey is especially well known for his idea called languishing.

To languish is to lose or to never have had a lot of the good things in

life that make our lives matter and make it meaningful. This is why people who are languishing

sometimes describe themselves as dead or dying inside. Languishing creeps in after a period of extreme

stress, grief, isolation, discrimination, trauma, moral injury, or demoralization, a period of extreme stress, grief, isolation, discrimination, trauma, moral injury, or

demoralization, a sense of low-grade mental weariness that can be easy to dismiss,

especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. If you stay in the state of languishing too

long, it will put you at risk for a whole host of problems, not the least of which is depression.

Thankfully, Corey offers us some guidance on what we can do if we're languishing to feel

alive again in a world that wears us down, including the five psychological vitamins.

This is a really important discussion, and I hope it can help you increase your own sense

of aliveness.

So without further ado, I bring you Corey Keys.

Corey Keys. Wow. So glad to have you on the psychology podcast.

It's good to be here, Scott.

I'm a long time admirer of your work. I teach this course, The Science of Living Well at Barnard College,

Columby University,

and I start off my introductory lecture

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