The Importance of Awe

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The study found that people feel awe two to three times a week. The music that makes us feel awe tends to be vast in its meaning, right? It's like this Beethoven song is really about death, right? Or it can be vast in terms of the space that music occupies. So there's a lot of awe around us in our everyday lives.

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His latest book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, is out now.

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