This is the 10% happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Okay, greetings, my fellow suffering beings.

My guest today is one of the most prominent happiness researchers on planet Earth.

And he has concluded that living the good life boils down to one thing.

And that one thing is finding AW, AW.

In this episode, we're going to learn what AW does to your body, how it changes your

sense of self and your relationship to the world, and why we evolved to feel AW, including

through physiological reactions such as goosebumps.

We're also going to get eight simple strategies for mainlining AW in our everyday lives.

My guest is Dacker Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California

Berkeley and the faculty director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

His new book is called AW, the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform

your life.

In this conversation, we talk about what AW is exactly, how it's different from other

primal emotions such as fear, why we are AW starved in our culture right now, the

connection between AW and morality, how to get something called moral beauty into our

lives as an alternative to the outrage, so regularly served up to us via social media.

The importance of something called collective effervescence, a term I love, how to use nature,

music, and even death as sources of AW.

In fact, he's going to share a very personal story on that front, how to understand epiphanies,

and how AW has the potential to sometimes get us into trouble.

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