Can You Guess What One Emotion May Be the Key to Happiness? | Dacher Keltner | Podcast Episode 546

This podcast guest is one of the most prominent happiness researchers in the world,
and he has come to the conclusion that living the good life boils down to one thing: finding awe. We’re going to learn what awe does to your body, how it changes your sense of self and your relationship to the world, and why we evolved to feel awe. We’re also going to get eight simple strategies for mainlining awe into our everyday lives.
In this conversation we talk about:
What awe is exactly
How awe is different from other primal emotions like fear and appreciation of
beauty
Why we are awe-starved in our culture right now
The connection between awe and morality
How to get something called “moral beauty” into our lives as an alternative
to the outrage served up by social media
The importance of something called “collective effervescence”
How to use nature, music, and even death as sources of awe
How to understand epiphanies
And how awe has the potential to get us into trouble sometimes
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s ‪@greatergoodscience‬ Greater Good Science Center. His new book is called, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It CanTransform Your Life
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Published on podcast Mon Jan 16 2023
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Great ideas! One of my favorite maxims has been “Feeling sad? Learn something new.” (Unknown). This seems to be connected. I am just starting the book AWE.