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Inciting joy with Ross Gay

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

How to Write a Book of Delight

The book is the result of being the beneficiary of all kinds of delights, many of those delights being like people sharing stuff with me. And then people will send me these really beautiful little things, you know, that the book made them think of or they send me their own delights. There's a famous study I can't remember was from about people looking back on their life and describing where they found the most happiness. One of the things that came up is things that take long periods of kind of cultivation that at the time sometimes aren't even that fun but over time, you really come to savor them.

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