Awe and a Meaningful Life - IATE with Dacher Keltner, PhD

In this podcast, Sounds True’s founder, Tami Simon, speaks with Dr. Dacher Keltner about his inspiring work and his exploration of how the experience of awe, gratitude, empathy, and other prosocial emotions is intimately tied to our capacity to live a life of meaning. Tami and Dacher discuss Charles Darwin’s study of emotions and how “survival of the kindest” may be more true than “survival of the fittest”; the connection between emotions and ethics and the changing nature of power; the instinct of sympathy; making kindness your core principle; choosing prosocial emotions in stressful, energy-draining situations; “vagal superstars” and the practice of compassion; establishing healthy boundaries to avoid empathic distress (or taking in other people’s suffering); creating positive changes in the health-care system; the experience of awe in the presence of another person; and more.
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Dacher Keltner, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the founding director of the university’s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). He is the host of the GGSC’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness, and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He has devoted his career to studying the nature of human goodness and happiness, conducting groundbreaking research on compassion, awe, laughter, and love. He is also the bestselling author of The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence and Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, and is a coeditor of The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness, in addition to more than 100 scientific papers and two bestselling textbooks.
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[@SusmitaBarua_mita]

Dacher's life shows the importance of kind creative parents and positive learning environment in raising happy compassionate humans and boys. The seeds of mindful meaningful life are nurtured by spaces, (school, home, work, healthcare) that are caring, loving and appreciative.

[@gavinspeaks]

*3 Secrets To Raise Your Vibration:*
1. Always put love first and then balance it out with logic
2. Undo what you have been taught. It’s all ego. Ego is only the sailor not the boat!
3. Let go of subconscious patterns, emotions and thoughts that don’t aligned with your goals
~Much Love from a Law of Attraction TH-camr💜

[@doricetimko332]

Thank you for everything you do and offer to others! So thrilled when I see a new interview is up…

[@victormessina4939]

Excellent. The whole universe is pulsating with the mystery of awe. Blessed are they who pause to notice and be nourished by it thus activating and deepening the God given capacity for awe that lies deep the human spirit. Thanks for the research being done in this area. Awesome!

[@user-yo7fk4vl2g]

Great speaker!
I liked that Dacher referred to Steve Porges.

[@gavinjames2311]

I've listened to many influential people on this show and I just couldn't connect with this gentleman. Kindness is deep seated in ones personal view of the world. Do we suppress our own accepted norms to project kindness? My kindness is limited to giving rather than broad based acceptance of everything around me.