Ingrid Fetell Lee

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How to Be a Better Human · Summer Fridays: How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee) (re-release) · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Okay.

One thing that seems to immediately resonate with people is color.

This idea that having more color in our surroundings can create joy in a repeatable way, I think really tends to click for people, especially because many of us are working in offices that are

gray and beige.

We come home to homes that are kind of white and beige.

These neutrals have sort of taken hold and we don't really know why they've taken hold.

Maybe it's the minimalist trend or the kinfolk period in the early 2000s.

And so we have this very bland canvas.

And I think people go and they're like, yeah, why don't I have more color in my life?

And then they put a little into their homes, you know, they paint a couple of walls or they buy something colorful that they have been eyeing, but sort of thought maybe wasn't sophisticated enough or it wasn't for them.

And they bring it home.

And like, even if it's like a colorful coffee mug, it's like something so small and simple, or they start wearing more color and

For a lot of people, they just started to look at their surroundings in a different way.

That was my hope for the book, that people would start to look at their surroundings in a different way.

Of course, I'm also really excited when people who are

involved in spaces in the community start to look at their spaces in a different way.

Teachers, when they start to look at the school environment.

I've had lots of teachers write about projects that they've done with students to create more joy in the school building or the crosswalks or the playground or, you know, the areas around the school or nurses working in hospitals or hospital administrators.

And I recently heard that the organization Freedom Reads

is looking at Joyful in the context of prison libraries and starting to bring Aesthetics of Joy into these spaces, which are of course constructed in such a deliberately depressing and dehumanizing way, to actually inspire people and create a space for well-being and rehabilitation for people who are incarcerated.

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