Dr. Dacher Keltner

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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She said, every time I play my cello, as the notes go out, I feel connected to the audience.

And I feel like I'm connected to the history of music.

And that's purpose, right?

What I'm doing right now is connected to something larger than the self.

And when you feel purposeless, you're unaware of how you are part of a bigger story.

And we need that.

And it's so important, and you're getting it exactly right, and it's, you know, for any age person, right?

I think about, you know, a person in the middle of their career, and they're a nurse, and they're working long hours, right?

And they're

It's exhausting, that kind of work.

High pressure.

You think about a teenager facing our world today.

Like, what is their purpose going to be for the next generation?

You think about somebody in the last quarter of their life.

And Amy Wisniewski at Yale had this idea called calling.

And she said, as long as you locate within you, like, this is who I am.

And this is what I want to serve in the world, some larger thing.

If you can figure that out, right?

You might be a carpenter on a project or a roofer or a nurse in a hospital or a school teacher.

If you start to see that in yourself.

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