Dave Evans

So he's going to transcend the pattern and force you to realize, oh, doors aren't for walking through.

So he ends up with a policy that he can't abide by the pattern.

You know, so his moral commitment is to constantly press that edge less than it could be, which is a really sort of monastic commitment.

Okay.

So wonder, and we have a little equation for that.

So when you take curiosity,

Curiosity is a very good thing.

It's a mindset we're in favor of, you know, and you upgrade it by applying, you direct curiosity toward mystery.

Those things that are beyond our understanding or since transcended at the moment of time, curiosity plus mystery.

So I'm now going to lean with a high availability into a mystery allows wonder to occur.

And one, the reason wonder is important.

So wonder, awe, even positive overwhelm.

So Dr. Keltner, a prophet, UC Berkeley has written the book on awe and then

eight different forms of human experience that allow awe or wonder to occur.

So he's quadrupled down on this thing and that it works across all cultures and all different spiritual traditions.

It's a fundamentally human experience that people report as making themselves feel more alive and making themselves feel more like themselves and making themselves feel more like a part of this great, wonderful thing.

So very often in an intense experience of wonder, whether it's a communal thing at a concert, whether it's a sunset, whether it's noticing the sleeping baby at three in the morning,

You know, suddenly like, oh, and it's all one fabric and we're all in this thing together and the universality of it all suddenly breaks through.

So wonder enables that to occur.

It's profoundly human-making experience.