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Read this book to connect with your highest self.
Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet
We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find it.
Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
Awe is awesome in both senses: a superb analysis of an emotion that is strongly felt but poorly understood, with a showcase of examples that remind us of what is worthy of our awe.
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and Rationality
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions and consultant to Pixars Inside Out, a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and greater understanding of awe
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon, or the utter amazement when we watch a child walk for the first time? How do you put into words the collective effervescence of standing in a crowd and singing in unison, or the wonder you feel while gazing at centuries-old works of art? Up until fifteen years ago, there was no science of awe, the feeling we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that transcend our understanding of the world. Scientists were studying emotions like fear and disgust, emotions that seemed essential to human survival. Revolutionary thinking, though, has brought into focus how, through the span of evolution, weve met our most basic needs socially. Weve survived thanks to our capacities to cooperate, form communities, and create culture that strengthens our sense of shared identityactions that are sparked and spurred by awe.
In Awe, Dacher Keltner presents a radical investigation and deeply personal inquiry into this elusive emotion. Revealing new research into how awe transforms our brains and bodies, alongside an examination of awe across history, culture, and within his own life during a period of grief, Keltner shows us how cultivating awe in our everyday life leads us to appreciate what is most humane in our human nature. And during a moment in which our world feels more divided than ever before, and more imperiled by crises of different kinds, we are greatly in need of awe. If we open our minds, it is awe that sharpens our reasoning and orients us toward big ideas and new insights, that cools our immune systems inflammation response and strengthens our bodies. It is awe that activates our inclination to share and create strong networks, to take actions that are good for the natural and social world around us. It is awe that transforms who we are, that inspires the creation of art, music, and religion. At turns radical and profound, brimming with enlightening and practical insights, Awe is our field guide, from not only one of the leading voices on the subject but a fellow seeker of awe in his own right, for how to place awe as a vital force within our lives.
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Twenty years of insight about awe. Whoa! On every continent and in every imaginable religion. Wow. Intensely personal, recognizably collective, and utterly universal, Keltners stories and science of awe are inspired. Awe merges us with systems larger than selfnature, music, art, spirit, morality, collectives, life, and death. We are better for Keltners account. Read it. Aahhh.
Susan T. Fiske, coauthor of Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture and author of Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us
A researcher who has taught us new ways to think about generosity and cooperation has turned his attention to one of the most understudied emotions of all, Awe. Eye-opening and mind-expanding.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The Origins of Mutual Understanding
Our troubling times, our clickbait media, even our own habits of mind, blanket our consciousness with the negative and threatening in life. This book is a counterforce. Powerful, erudite, rooted in brilliant research, but always fascinatingly accessible, it uplifts the wonderful in life. From the beauty of movement in sports to the moral courage of a friend, its a guide to how to see and experience the wonder that is always all around us. It balances consciousness. It has been a long time since Ive read anything as inspiring. Id say race to read it. You wont be disappointed.
Claude M. Steele, Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University
Dacher Keltner has written a deeply personal, scientifically brilliant treatise on an emotion he convinces us we need to experience more often in our daily lives.
Richard E. Nisbett, author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
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Names: Keltner, Dacher, author.
Title: Awe: the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life / Dacher Keltner.
Description: New York: Penguin Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022002707 (print) | LCCN 2022002708 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984879684 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984879691 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593653012 (international edition)
Subjects: LCSH: Awe. | Wonder.
Classification: LCC BF575.A9 K45 2022 (print) | LCC BF575.A9 (ebook) | DDC 152.4dc23/eng/20220921
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022002707
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022002708
Cover design: Christopher Brian King
Cover photograph: Annapurna Mellor
Designed by Amanda Dewey, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
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For Rolf Keltner
From wonder into wonder, existence opens.
Lao Tzu
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I have taught happiness to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It is not obvious why I ended up doing this work: I have been a pretty wound-up, anxious person for significant chunks of my life and was thrown out of my first meditation class (for laughing while we chanted I am a being of purple fire). Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do. So nearly every day in classrooms of different kinds, from kindergarten circle rugs to lecture halls in Berkeley, from the apses of churches to inside prisons, from sterile conference rooms in hospitals to gatherings in nature, Ive taught people about finding the good life.
What we are seeking in such inquiry is an answer to a perennial question, one we have been asking in different ways for tens of thousands of years: How can we live the good life? One enlivened by joy and community and meaning, that brings us a sense of worth and belonging and strengthens the people and natural environments around us? Now, twenty years into teaching happiness, I have an answer:
FIND AWE.
Awe is the emotion we experience when we encounter vast mysteries that we dont understand. Why would I recommend that you find happiness in an emotion that is so fleeting and evanescent? A feeling so elusive that it resists simple description? That requires the unexpected, and moves us toward mystery and the unknown rather than what is certain and easy?
Because we can find awe anywhere. Because doing so doesnt require money or the burning of fossil fuelsor even much time. Our research suggests that just a couple of minutes a day will do. Because we have a basic need for awe wired into our brains and bodies, finding awe is easy if we just take a moment and wonder. Because all of us, no matter what our background, can find our own meaningful path to awe. Because brief moments of awe are as good for your mind and body as anything you might do.
My hope for you in reading this book is simpleit is that you will find more awe.
In the service of this aim, I will need to tell you four stories.
The first is the new science of awe. In ways I am beginning to understand, I was raised to study awe with the tools of science. My mom taught poetry and literature at a large public university, and in how she lived her life she taught me about the wisdom of the passions and to speak truth to power. My dad painted in the horrifying and beautiful style of Francisco Goya and Francis Bacon and suggested that life is about seeking the Tao with your Zen mind, beginners mind. I grew up in wild Laurel Canyon, California, in the late 1960s, with the Doors and Joni Mitchell as neighbors, and then in the hardscrabble foothills of the Sierras, where a poor, rural wildness prevailed. The soaring ideas of the timescivil rights, antiwar protests, womens rights, sexual and artistic revolution, Watergatefilled the conversations at our dinner table and posters on the walls of our home.
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