The New Science of Everyday Wonder with Dacher Keltner

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During this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Dr Dacher Kelter. Dacher is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the director of the Greater Good Science Center. His pioneering research focuses on the cultural and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, power, social class and social inequality. He has over 200 scientific publications and has written several books, the latest of which is Awe - The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life. In this book, Dr. Keltner investigates the elusive emotion of awe - and presents incredible research on how the emotion of Awe can transform our brains and bodies, and how we can cultivate more experiences of awe in our everyday lives.
Referenced during this episode:
Greater Good In Action - https://ggia.berkeley.edu/
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:01:54)

3. What experiences compelled you to become a psychologist, professor and author? (00:06:06)

4. How do you define awe, and what inspired you to study and write about it? (00:09:08)

5. In your book you start with ‘moral beauty’. Can you unpack that for us? (00:11:16)

6. What are the other things that we’re experiencing when we’re experiencing awe? (00:15:04)

7. Did you find that it’s easy for all kinds of people everywhere to experience awe? (00:17:01)

8. What is the evolutionary purpose of awe? (00:19:20)

9. Is awe an affirmation of a need in us? What’s it signalling? (00:21:42)

10. You say that wealth is undermining our experience of awe. (00:24:13)

11. Talk to us about collective effervescence. (00:26:09)

12. What does self-knowledge from awe help us with? (00:30:50)

13. As our brain works to minimise surprise, how does that reduce our sense of awe? (00:34:20)

14. Why do leaders need to make awe a factor in their thinking? (00:37:09)

15. How to cultivate everyday awe. (00:41:03)

16. The importance of not putting awe on a pedestal. (00:43:17)

17. What’s next for you in terms of your research? (00:44:40)

18. What should people do to bring more awe into their lives? (00:46:52)

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