Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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I don't know.
I'm working with rangers right now.
And I think the big...
expansive forms of awe that those places provide is attenuated, but they're still finding it in subtler ways.
Yeah, that's really interesting.
And it's as interesting as I've been privileged to
Pete Docter at Pixar for 15 years and worked on some of his films, Inside Out and Inside Out 2 and Soul.
Yeah, and through the science of emotion.
And I was like, you know, in one of our conversations, I was like, tell me about some techniques for producing awe in children's films, animated films.
And he described first just what you said, like, you know, the film is narrow, like a certain kind of attention, you know, sort of sympathetic, fearful, checking things, and then poof.
It comes suddenly you see the vastness of something and it's true, it is awe inspiring.
When you think about it neuroscientifically is a very basic form of awe is shifting from small to vast in terms of vision and perception.
And then it becomes metaphorical, right?
It's like, God, I'm thinking about like, I love one of the wonders of life.
that makes us feel awe is big ideas and epiphanies.
And very often people will be like, God, I've been working so hard at this.
I'm working on a paper, something in technology or some part of my life.
And then you suddenly realize it's part of something large, right?
One of the musicians that I interviewed, Yumi Kendall, in the book, in the chapter on musical awe said, you know, she's a cellist for the Philadelphia Symphony said,
You know, I practice for five hours a day.
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