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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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Many of us are familiar with wellbeing, but have you heard about flourishing?
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0:27.8 | Hello, this is six-minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil. |
0:33.9 | And I'm Georgie. Now, you probably know the word well-being. It's a general feeling of health and happiness. |
0:39.3 | But have you ever heard of flourishing? It's an idea which Claudia Hammond has been investigating for BBC Radio 4 programme All in the Mind. I wonder if you all feel that you |
0:45.6 | are flourishing in life. This is another psychological buzzword with added evidence. Now if you've |
0:52.3 | not heard that term before, it's not just about well-being, |
0:54.9 | it's about your whole life being good. |
0:57.3 | Flourishing is a psychological buzzword, a word or phrase that has become fashionable and is being |
1:03.8 | used a lot, especially on television and in newspapers. People who are flourishing feel good |
1:10.1 | about all aspects of their life, including |
1:12.6 | happiness, health, relationships and financial security. Do you feel you're flourishing, Georgie? |
1:19.7 | Yeah, I think I'm quite lucky, actually. I really like my job. I have a good family and friends. |
1:26.6 | Yeah, everything's going well. What about you, Phil? |
1:29.1 | I think the same. I think I'm happy and I've got everything I need. Lovely. In this episode, |
1:35.2 | we'll hear about the global flourishing study. A new survey into the lives of over 200,000 people |
1:42.6 | in 22 countries. We'll learn some useful new words and phrases, |
1:47.5 | and remember, you'll find all this episode's vocabulary on our website, BBClearningEnglish.com. |
1:53.9 | Yes, but first, Phil, I have a question for you about the global flourishing study. |
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