Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Apr
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I've never looked at the sky like that.
Two minutes.
So changing your mind is the hard work of life to get to aha.
The thing we know, this is really across the science of emotion, is that the broad categories of what makes us feel awe are pretty universal.
Nature, moral beauty, music, visual stuff, Islamic patterns in tiles or the Dutch masters.
Spiritual stuff, life and death, movement together, dancing and prayer and so forth.
But then there's a lot of variation in what, you know, makes you feel awe in terms of who you are as a person and where you are in culture.
If I were to hang out with a bunch of political libertarians, they would freak out about free markets, you know, just like, wow.
And I'd be critical and skeptical and I'd be freaked out about communal existence, you know?
So there's variation, but also universality.
Yeah.
I would even say that's true of music.
When I ask people, tell me a time when you've teared up and got goosebumps and felt awe when you listen to music.
And if it's a random sample of people, there'll be somebody who mentions choral music and somebody who mentions...
Taylor Swift, somebody who mentions hip hop and somebody who mentions Garth Brooks and someone who mentions the Grateful Dead and I'll say Iggy Pop and who could make sense of that?
And it's the same with landscapes, right?
That trees, and I think there's something about identity in it, the music and the food and the landscape of my core identity, my childhood.
My people, my family, that's what brings us all.
But no one's tested that scientifically.
And we'd have to do that work to really be confident about that.
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