Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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For me, when I realized...
my purpose is to teach.
I come from a long line of teachers.
I didn't know that.
Once you realize like this is in me and I'm serving some part of the world through this action, you'll find purpose.
And it gives us a lot of power in some sense and agency to find that.
Yeah.
I mean, I had a very poignant experience of that when I lost my younger brother.
I'm a
hardworking person like a lot of people listening and had a lot of purpose.
And then somehow the grief kind of dislocated me and I felt just profoundly exhausted and without the sense of inspiration that he provided me and purposeless is how it felt.
And I think that what you really need to do is you need to just kind of pause and reflect and think about what are the moments of purpose in this day.
And for me, what was clear is I have a commitment to orienting with kindness to other people.
You know, that's not a radical idea.
Almost every great ethical tradition thinks that's where we should begin, from Confucianism to the Abrahamic traditions to...
Contemporary philosophy is like practice kindness.
Practice it when you're walking through a city.
Practice it when you're helping somebody get across the street.
Practice it in your daily work life.
And then 30% to 40% of Americans volunteer.
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