Thank you for joining us for episode 413 of Live Happy Now.

We're all born with a sense of wonder, so where does it go?

This week, our guest is going to tell us and help us rediscover it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with world-renowned speaker,

writer, and authority on the future of work, Monica Parker.

Monica has spent decades helping people discover how to lead and live wonderfully.

Now, she's sharing what she has learned in her new book, The Power of Wonder,

the extraordinary emotion that will change the way you live,

learn, and lead. Monica reminds us of the wonder we once felt, explains why it's so important,

and then gives us great tips on how to reclaim it. Let's have a listen. Monica, thank you so much

for joining me on Live Happy Now. Thank you, Paula, for having me.

I'm delighted to be here. You have written such a remarkable book, and I'm really excited to dig in

and talk to our listeners about it. So I make sure that we're on the same page. Can you explain what

you mean when you say we're talking about wonder absolutely so wonder has a couple of different

meanings it's sort of a shapeshifter as a term so we have wonder as a verb right to wonder which is

sort of curiosity but then we also have wonder as a noun which would be a wonder which might be

something that would cause us to have awe and so what I did is I wanted to link those two into an emotional

experience. And so the way I describe wonder is it's an emotional experience that starts with

openness, moves into curiosity, then into absorption, and then into awe. And it's actually almost

like a cycle. So the more that we experience any of these

different components, the more likely we are to experience them in the future.

And it's something that's very overlooked and it's undervalued. And one of the first things that struck

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