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The Science of Happiness

Delight in the Unexpected

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A high-five from a stranger, a hummingbird on a busy city street. Poet Ross Gay shares his own happiness practice: savoring the everyday delights in life.

~ Try one of UC Berkeley's Greater Good in Action happiness practices.

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0:44.0

And while I was working, headphones on, sway into the new

0:50.8

Dailas soul record, Delight.

0:53.5

I noticed a white girl.

0:55.5

She looked 15, but could have been, I suppose, a college student,

0:59.1

standing next to me with her hand raised.

1:02.0

I looked up, confused, and pulled my headphones back and she said

1:06.2

like a coach or something, working on your paper? Good job to you! High-fived!

1:10.8

And you better believe I high-fived that child in her pre-ripped Deaf leopard shirt and her itty-bitty

1:17.0

Doc Martins. For I love, I delight in, unequivocally pleasant, public physical interactions with strangers.

1:24.6

What constitutes pleasant, it's no secret,

1:26.8

is informed by my largish male and cisgender body,

1:31.1

a body that is also largeish male, cis gender, and not white. In other words, the

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