Ingrid Fetell Lee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And so to me, it's less about how do I bring joy into this phase of life, but how do I...
remember, that's actually my natural state, just as the way it was when I was a kid.
It's my natural state.
And I'm just reacting to things.
I'm letting go of some of the things that have taken that away from me.
I think you're right.
It is the designer's perspective.
And I think what specifically it is, is that for a lot of us, when we think, oh, we're going to make something joyful, we think about what is joyful, and then we just do that.
So it's like, oh, kindergartners are joyful.
Okay, we're just going to put brightly colored beanbags everywhere.
And we're just going to, you know, put Legos everywhere and bubbles, and that's just going to make it joyful.
And you're right, as part of my work, what I was trying to understand was, you know,
What makes these things specifically joyful?
And it's
understanding that there are sensorial qualities to those joyful things that are repeatable, that we can find throughout cultures all over the planet.
So things like bright color, round shapes, a sense of abundance and multiplicity, a feeling of lightness or elevation, repeating patterns.
And it's that level of abstraction of being able to understand what is the essence that's actually making this joyful from a neuroscientific perspective
that allows us to then say, okay, well, what's really doing the work of creating the joy is the repetition, not necessarily the polka dots.
It's the repetition of the circular shape.
And those two things together are what's creating that feeling of joy.
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