Sally Kohn: Taste is another way to kind of use taste for social connection. She says the final sense that you decided to dive into was I think the one you are absolutely most excited for, which is the sense of touch. And so talk about why touch is a little bit weird in some ways and how it works with our bodies.Kohn: How do you not know your own preferences? It seems like there's nothing that would be more obvious. But I realized I just sort of bumbled around in this fog," she said.
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she'd taken all of her five senses for granted - and so she resolved to wring every ounce of joy from the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures around her.
Concluding her conversation with Dr Laurie Santos, Gretchen explains how to be more alive to smell, taste and touch - building on the ideas in her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.
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