Dacher Keltner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yep, my best friend Memo and I got tossed out of that class in college.
Yeah, you know, and that's the point.
You know, I struggle to meditate.
I am wound up.
I can't, that's just what I got, you know, in my nervous system.
And awe really, as I wrote this book in a very hard time in my life, I was like, yeah, that's what grounded me in life.
Hello, Oprah.
It's nice to be with you.
Nice to be here.
And an honor.
Yeah, that's actually a tough question, right?
People have been trying to define the sense of the mystical and the sublime.
A little too much these days.
Yes, yes.
Yeah, so awe is an emotion you feel when you encounter vast things most typically,
giant redwoods, right, a vast piece of music, somebody who really inspires you with the size of their character.
And then it's mysterious to you.
You don't quite understand it immediately, and it provokes you to wonder.
So, very simply, awe is when we encounter vast mysteries.
No, philosophers pull awe and wonder apart.