Dr. Dacher Keltner

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · Feeling Lost or Behind in Life? The #1 Happiness Expert Explains How to Find Your Purpose · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And I faced a lot of skeptics, like, wait a minute, if depression's rising out of COVID, you think awe is the answer?

And we actually found like, if you practice a minute of awe a day, you feel less depressed.

And so what we've found makes me feel bullish about,

And when I'm in front of a thousand doctors and giving a talk, which I do routinely to MDs and nurses and healthcare providers, other healthcare providers, I say there's nothing better for your mind and body than a minute of awe a day.

And what we know is a minute of awe a day

reduces depression, reduces anxiety, reduces the daily stresses, makes you feel less exhausted and more energetic, makes you feel more connected, less lonely, more purposeful, is good for your heart, is good for your immune system, reduces inflammation in the body,

That's a few minutes of awe a day.

You step outside and you look at the sunset and you pause and you watch the colors change and your body starts to feel, as Emerson said, like there's nothing nature cannot repair.

So yeah, it's a battle cry in some sense for me, which is that we have data showing money gets in the way of awe.

You don't need any money to find this.

What we need to do is just look around us, think about an opportunity for awe and go get it.

After we started to document these health benefits of awe, we started to test it.

Like, can this benefit people in systematic ways?

And we've got good evidence for that.

And what I tell people is really simple, which is,

pause, put away your devices, open your mind, take a deep breath.

And then, you know, Mel, in our research from around the world, we found these eight wonders, right, that really help us put awe into practice.

So find it in nature, right?

So go outside and look at the sky.

I do this with my undergrads.

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