5 Things Missing From Your Life: Why Successful Dentists Still Aren’t Happy with Corey Keyes

About this episode

Dr. Corey Keyes discusses the concept of languishing and how successful dentists can find happiness.

Successful, functioning, but secretly miserable? There's a name for what you're feeling, and it isn't burnout. In this episode, Dr. Corey Keyes, sociologist and author of Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down, breaks down what's really happening when life looks good on paper but you feel “off.” He calls it "languishing" — and you'll learn how to tell if this is you, the five things that can pull you out of it, and where to start once you know. Topics discussed: Th...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Paul Etchison

Guest: Corey Keyes

Topics covered

• happiness
• languishing
• mental health
• dentistry
• success

Keywords

• languishing
• mental health
• dentists
• success
• happiness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down

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