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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

How to move from languishing to flourishing

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rebroadcast: Languishing. That feeling of a lack of motivation or direction. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in their lives. So how do we move from languishing to flourishing? Sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career trying to find the answer.

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0:00.0

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0:31.0

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0:35.0

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:37.6

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:41.6

This is on point.

0:44.0

I'm Meghna Chakrabardi.

0:46.0

In or about 1863,

0:50.0

Emily Dickinson penned one of her most challenging poems.

0:55.0

It begins,

0:56.0

My life had stood a loaded gun in corners till a day.

1:02.0

The owner passed identified and carried me away. A loaded gun. It's such a powerful

1:10.5

image, but of what? A life unfulfilled unless triggered by another? A soul trapped in a

1:18.6

corner, as she says, useful for nothing in and of itself?

1:24.0

Four more stands as pass, and Dickinson ends the poem this way.

1:30.0

Though I than he may longer live, he longer must than I, for I have but the power to kill,

1:41.2

without the power to die.

1:45.0

It's a really ambiguous and confrontational poem and I feel like it's blurred in something,

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