tangible objects could create intangible feelings of joy.

And so that it became a quest and I started,

I started, you know, researching it from a scientific perspective,

digging into the psychology literature. researching it's from a scientific perspective,

digging into the psychology literature.

And also looking from the design side,

and it was pretty clear that there is a gap

between these two fields and that what scientists are learning about

our relationship to the physical world doesn't really make it across into design very often because design is a really intuitive discipline.

And then on the other hand, psychology is really inward looking discipline.

So for generations, psychologists have focused on attitudes, on behavior, and, you know, now

neurochemistry, but there really isn't much focus on our surroundings.

I think we dismiss it as trivial,

as, you know, like to focus too much on material objects

makes you shallow, it makes you superficial superficial and so none of us want to look

too closely at that or think that that plays too much of a role in our lives but in fact the

science shows that there is a pretty big relationship between our surroundings and our emotional health and well-being.

It just hadn't been laid out and so this for me was like a it was the ideal exercise actually of like going through and creating you know taking

Insights from all these different disciplines that were sort of separated in different fields within psychology and piecing them together to try to create an understanding of how our things influence our emotions.

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