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Corey Keyes is a professor emeritus of sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, where he held the Winship Distinguished Research Professorship. He was a member of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation ...

Did you welcome the new year with a sense of ‘meh’? Or maybe for a while you’ve been thinking, ‘Is this it?’ and ‘What’s next for me?’ This inertia is so common it has a name – languishing. Simply put ...

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 ...

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