Dr. Richard Davidson

There's a palpable...

sense of quiet in that 10 seconds and then they all raise their hand excitedly.

But they can really taste it and so I do think it's possible.

The other thing is, and this is something really important, there's something we've discovered empirically recently, which is that flourishing is infectious, it's contagious.

Flourishing is contagious.

Yeah.

So in the example of you asked about meditating in kids, and the reason I'm bringing it up in this context is one of the best things I can think a parent can do for a kid is not to have the kid meditate, but meditate yourself and just be with the child and be fully present, be connected,

and really show up in that way.

And you will osmotically transmit

through your demeanor and your interaction, you will transmit these qualities to the child in a completely implicit way.

And that's what we mean when we say flourishing is contagious, but how we studied it.

So let me actually share one of the... This is a finding that we're super excited about and it's not yet published, but the paper is just under review.

So one of the things we're deeply interested in these days is how can we scale human flourishing?

So we're doing this kind of sector by sector and one sector that we're doing a lot of work with is educators.

And educators around the world and particularly in the US, but we've done this in Mexico too, so it's not just US based, but they're super stressed, they're not well paid and all of that.

So we did a study with public school educators in Louisville, Kentucky.

And there are many reasons why we went to Louisville.

But Louisville is a complicated school system.

It's diverse.

There are a lot of problems in it.