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Good Life Project

How Awe Can Change Your Life | Dacher Keltner

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Discover the transformative power of the most under-researched human emotion, awe, in this enlightening episode with Dacher Keltner, renowned psychology professor and author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.


💡 Unearth the profound impact of awe on personal well-being and global change.

💡 Understand how cultivating a sense of wonder can refresh your outlook and enhance your connection with the world.

💡 Get a sneak peek into Dacher Keltner’s groundbreaking research spanning three decades, highlighting the untapped power of awe.

💡 Learn about the tangible psychological and physiological benefits of awe from reduced stress to increased vitality.

💡 Explore actionable ways to infuse awe into your daily routine for amplified well-being and human connection.


This thought-provoking dialogue blends scientific evidence with personal experiences to redefine your understanding of emotions. It’s time to tap into the awe-inspiring power of awe.


You can find Dacher at: Website | LinkedIn


If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with Jeffrey Davis about wonder.


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0:00.0

brief doses of all getting outdoors dancing listening to music having a great conversation it boosts well-being

0:06.8

We know it increases your feeling good about life brief moments of all help you handle daily stresses better brief moments of all

0:13.9

Even when you're by yourself in nature music make you feel connected and decrease loneliness brief moments of all make you more

0:20.7

Creative and they make you feel like the people around you even ideological

0:26.0

adversaries you kind of share stuff right you're you're part of a community so when you put that together

0:31.6

It just tells us like if we're really thinking about the utility of all it's good news for human beings

0:40.5

So would it surprise you to know that there is a powerful human emotion?

0:44.9

Maybe even one of the most transformational ones that was almost entirely ignored by the scientific community

0:52.0

Until fairly recently because they thought it just didn't matter and that emotion and the experience of it

0:58.0

We now know not just through generations of personal experience, but a growing body of scientific evidence

1:04.8

It holds the power to not only change your life, but maybe even the world

1:09.8

Well, it turns out just such an emotion exists and we call it awe

1:15.4

It is a stunningly powerful way to boost your well-being gain a fresh perspective and reconnect with the world

1:21.4

Just by cultivating your sense of wonder and awe and even better

1:25.3

It just plain feels amazing to be in it

1:28.8

An hour guide today as we dive into the world of awe is Docker Keltner the author of the new book awe

1:34.8

The new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life and expert in the science of emotions

1:41.2

Someone who I have followed and his work for years and a professor of psychology at the University of California

1:48.3

Docker has been studying emotion for over three decades

1:51.2

And though always often overlooked in early research on emotions

1:55.1

He began focusing on the experience and its impact on our lives

1:59.6

Through studies now with thousands of people across the globe

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