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The Genius Life

294: How a Daily Dose of Awe Can Make You Healthier and Happier | Dacher Keltner, PhD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His latest book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, is out now.

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0:00.0

What up family, it's episode 294 of The Genius Life.

0:04.2

Let's go.

0:17.4

What's going on everybody?

0:18.4

Welcome back to another episode of The Show.

0:20.0

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist

0:22.8

in New York Times best-selling author.

0:24.9

I'm super excited to welcome to this episode of The Genius Life.

0:29.7

Dr. Dacker Keltner.

0:31.6

Dacker is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley,

0:35.7

where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.

0:39.1

He's also the founder and faculty director

0:41.2

of the Greater Good Science Center.

0:43.6

His research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins

0:47.8

of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and power, social class,

0:53.4

and social inequality.

0:55.1

His latest book, which just came out, which is actually

0:58.5

the reason why I reached out to him to get him on the show,

1:00.5

I thought was a fascinating topic, is called,

1:03.6

awe, the new science of everyday wonder

1:06.4

and how it can transform your life.

1:09.2

In the book, Dacker presents a radical investigation

1:11.7

and deeply personal inquiry into this elusive emotion.

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