250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
You Are Not So Smart
The Problem of Self-Interest and Self-Representation
Awareness deactivates the default mode network in Japan and Holland. It tells us that awe is a pathway by which music and drugs and meditation get us to this capacity to fold into social collective. I love the image of my mind of if you're terrified, you run away. If it's Godzilla, there's a moment of awe and then you're like, well, this is Norse awe. But there's this blossoming form that we're so privileged to have as humans.
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