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Okay. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. How are you doing today, listeners?

Would you say that you're flourishing?

I'm guessing you probably wouldn't unless you have a particularly fluid vocabulary.

But researchers are increasingly focused on the idea of human flourishing,

a multifaceted measurement that aims to

take a holistic look at our collective well-being. Basically, humans who are flourishing aren't just

happy. They have lives that are good across the board. And scientists want to get better at

measuring that so they can figure out what factors contribute to this desirable state.

Today's guest is Victor Counted, an associate professor of psychology at Regent University in Virginia.

He's also a faculty affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University

and part of the team behind the global flourishing study.

A five-year longitudinal survey of more than 200,000 individuals from 22 countries.

Thank you so much for coming on to chat with us today.

Thank you. I'm really honored to, you know, be here.

So tell me about the concept of flourishing.

What does it mean to researchers?

I think it means kind of different things in the the past, some people might call it to well-being.

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