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Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety

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The Divergence of Positive Psychology and Happiness

You're talking about what makes a good life in a much larger sense than just necessarily the conventional meaning of being happy. I'm really talking about an ability to recognize, well, the whole question of what is deeply moving to one. It's hard to be deeply moved by something unless there is a specter of death, anxiety, great humility about our vulnerability before the vastness of creation. And this is, I mean, I think that's what brings up the poignancy of life,. Whether it's in a relationship with somebody, a project, ideas.

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