Awe: How to Transform Your Life and World Every Day
Professor Dacher Keltner will outline the new science of awe and stories from around the world about this mysterious and deeply human emotion. We find awe in eight wonders of life, from the moral beauty of others to nature, from psychedelics to big ideas as well as the cycle of life and death. New evidence reveals that awe is a powerful pathway to better immune, physiological, and psychological health. Professor Keltner will close by pointing to specific pathways to experience more awe every day. Missed it? View the recording.
Speaker:
Dacher Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) and a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Keltner is the host of the GGSC’s award-winning podcast, “The Science of Happiness,” as well as a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He is also the best-selling author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and Born to Be Good. He is also a co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct.