Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order is about wonder, or as it's sometimes called

awe-A-W-E as in awesome or awestruck.

So there's an article in the New York Times it's written by a woman

named Hope Reese and it's about a book by Dacker Keltner who is a psychologist

at UC Berkeley and he started something called the Greater Good Science Center, which is a partner of ours over the years in various ways, including the series that we're doing right now on intellectual humility.

The thing about awe, which is underneath every episode that we're trying to do, is that it works.

It helps you transcend this dreary draining elements of everyday life and see something bigger.

And in the presence of something bigger, you get quite small, which we've talked about a lot which is how big are you in

the frame and is there any way for you to get smaller because smaller people can

move more easily they can think more easily and they can think more easily, and they can support more easily, which is really

what most of us seem to want to do.

The thing about Dhacker-Keltner's work and this article in the Times that I really liked

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