Dacher Keltner

It is unlike anything.

Really?

They're environmentalists, they're radicals, they're hunters, they're sports people, and it unites them in a sense of common spirit.

So it's worth remembering the big sources of awe that bring us together.

The Constitution is awe-inspiring as it documented.

Yeah, and you can go for $20.

Anybody goes.

There's a program for fourth-grade kids to go, put together by John Jarvis, the former director of the parks.

So it's a unifying American experience, and it transcends our concerns in the moment about...

you know, taxation or immigrants or the like.

So there are things that we can cultivate.

Yeah, I mean, I worry about this a lot and having raised two daughters and teach young people up at Berkeley and see the effects of our times, 90% rise in anxiety in young people.

90% rise.

Yeah, it's epidemic.

And so what the science of awe tells us is get them off the junk of their devices.

And there's a lot of moral ugliness.

Let them wander, give them more spare time.

And then let them do the things that we de-prioritize of music and visual arts.

And the ones that I really like, Oprah, that I think we've de-emphasized are

moral beauty, you know, get them to reflect on the people who move them.