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Dacher Keltner on Why We All Need Daily Doses of Awe

At a Distance

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Awe Leads to More Rigid Thought

Spencer: I found it really interesting to learn that lab studies have shown that awe leads to more rigorous thought. How do you kind of see awe as a potential solution to what ails us? Spencer: It's astonishing, almost at the sociological level, like what's happening in our culture today. The mind needs to be aware of the self and track it to succeed in the world,. But we need to beaware of the context, we need to being aware of other people," he says.

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