Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hello, today's For The Good of the Order is about wonder, or as it's sometimes called

awe, A-W-E, as an awesome or awestruck.

So there's an article in The New York Times that'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 bigger 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 support

more easily, which is really what most of us seem to want to do.

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

is that awe is sometimes used to talk about like the heavens, Saturn's rings, or the

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