Dr. Dacher Keltner
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That really shifted my understanding of awe, Albert Einstein, and then current philosophical thinking about
What is consciousness?
Part of consciousness is feeling, right?
It's just like, I feel compassion.
And awe is one.
And our science says this is a fundamental state in our mind that we can access pretty readily.
And when I learned that and when the data started to say, man, this is a state.
You can bring someone into a lab.
And if they start telling a story about somebody who's morally inspired them or Olympics, right, they start to tear up and they access awe.
And it's like, that's right there for us.
It's a layer in our mind.
And if we clear out certain things and we give ourselves the right set and setting, if you will, you can find it.
And then, you know, when I wrote the book,
After my brother had died and was blown off the map and in need of awe, I found that.
I was just like, if you just set your mind and you open your mind to finding it on a walk or listening to music or reflecting on your past, it's there to experience.
It's part of the mind.
I just got goosebumps thinking about when a grad student opened my mind to this.
This is in part why we do science, right?
80% of us, estimates suggest, will...
experience the trauma of someone who dies too young that we love.
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