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Dacher Keltner — The Thrilling New Science of Awe

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You Know, I'm a Scientist, Isn't It?

Sally Kohn: I want to start at the beginning, which is where I like to start. It seems to me that so much of your science takes what has always been moral virtue and you're taking it into the laboratory. She says she was raised by a literature professor who loved romanticism and Virginia Woolf; her dad loves visual artists such as Goya and Francis Bacon. The first lines of this book are "I have taught happiness to hundreds of thousands of people around the world" And now after 20 years in neuroscientists' labs, how do you deepen an awe?Kohn: You can only go from one experience to another if you've gone through them all

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