Dacher Keltner

People feel awe a few times a week.

And in those stories we gathered from 26 countries,

it was right around them.

And Einstein said, awe is a basic state of the mind that we can access anytime.

And so I make it a practice to find on a daily basis.

Yeah, you have a career that cultivates

Moral beauty.

Yeah.

And when we got these stories rolling in from Indonesia and China and Mexico and other countries, the most common source and most universal is what we call moral beauty, which is when you are moved by the courage and kindness, sense of justice and humility of other people.

And it is, you know, people start writing about, oh yeah, my grandmother or my teacher, you know, often teachers, this nurse who helped me with pain, my mother, my father, et cetera.

And the stories are astonishing, you know, of encountering a fellow human, stands up to injustice or gives away some resources or is courageous facing,

It is, but it's just remarkable to me that you can see a stranger helping another person in the streets.

You don't know any of these people and you're tearing up.

You can hear a story from another country about the courage of a woman facing a disease and it can change your life, right?

And that is a mystery for me scientifically.

Why is it that that's so powerful?

but it definitely is the universal source of all.

It is.

I love that.

Yeah.