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On Point | Podcast

Awe: Science's answer to your search for happiness

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This is Part III of On Point's Week of Wonder.

How do you find deep happiness? Researcher Dacher Keltner says the answer is to find everyday wonder.

Transcript

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Search SO thoughtful driving for changes we can all start to make today.

0:58.3

This is on point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi.

1:00.8

Every day when I walk down, I think my first sensation is the air. You know, I've taken these

1:08.4

gulps of air into my lungs and it's just like, oh, it's better than coffee. It just rejuvenates you.

1:15.2

Oh, John Reynolds. I do envy him. He has lived in California's Yosemite National

1:23.6

Park his entire life. Born and raised, he says, his mother worked at the Yosemite post office

1:31.6

for 43 years. So, John grew up in Yosemite village and there's an absolutely adorable picture

1:38.7

of him on the Sierra News website of John as a toddler smiling and sitting on the steps of a

1:44.0

Yosemite village building. Well, later, when he grew up, he joined the post office and worked

1:50.5

there for 44 years, 10 years as postmaster. And John Reynolds just retired this week. Congratulations

1:58.9

to you, John. But John tells us he's not going anywhere. He's going to stay right where he is

2:06.0

in Yosemite and continue his morning ritual in that first steps from his home. He pauses,

2:13.4

takes deep breaths and acknowledges the wonder around him.

2:20.7

In that 45 second walk, it just inspires me for the day because I go, man, look where I work.

2:26.5

I always turn around and look at Yosemite falls on my way down because Yosemite falls back to me as

2:32.6

I'm walking down to the post office. It almost looks like a painting, you know. It's hard to

2:39.5

articulate, you know, if there's a cascade in between the upper and lower falls. And then as you walk

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