Dacher Keltner
speaker
526 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Dacher Keltner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
Awe is an emotion you feel.
I see an incredible tree or a sunset.
And then wonder is the cognitive state after awe by which I try to make sense of things, right?
Right.
One of my favorite examples is Newton and Descartes were these famous scientists and philosophers and they were awestruck by rainbows.
How do rainbows exist?
And then in a state of wonder, they figured it out.
They did math and color theory and figured out how when light bends through water, it produces a rainbow.
Well, when you look at our world, Oprah, and you see the crises of mind, you know, depression and anxiety at historic highs, body, a lot of people are suffering pain, and community, you know, our Surgeon General, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, whom you know well, the crisis of loneliness.
Loneliness.
A minute of all day
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