Awe
- Author Dacher Keltner
- Narrator Dacher Keltner
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 51 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, Positive psychology, Psychology: emotions, Social, group or collective psychology, Society and culture: general.
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From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe
Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. These conversations and his pioneering research into the science of emotion have convinced him that happiness comes down to one thing: finding awe.
Awe allows us to collaborate with others, open our minds to wonder, and see the deep patterns of life. In his new book, Keltner presents a radical investigation into this elusive emotion. Drawing on his own scientific 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 immense grief, Keltner shows us how cultivating wonder leads us to appreciate what is most humane in our human nature. The book includes intensely moving, deeply personal stories of awe from people all over the world-doctors and veterans, environmentalists and poets, indigenous scholars and hospice workers, ministers and midwives.
At turns radical and profound, Awe is our field guide for how to uncover everyday wonder as a vital force within our lives.
©2023 Dacher Keltner (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Fascinating and enjoyable
Sunday Times -
Keltner writes movingly… Awe often defies language, but Keltner is highly attuned to its traces
Guardian -
Keltner’s core message, imploring us to smell the coffee and whoa at it, is a welcome one in our overscheduled times
Financial Times -
Humanity has a lot of loss to work through. Keltner has written the perfect guidebook for this journey, interweaving discoveries that he and his disciples have made since he pioneered the scientific study of awe 20 years ago with highly personal-and at times excruciatingly tender-meditations on the death of his brother Rolf
Harvard Business Review -
A gifted storyteller, Keltner draws on the experiences of individuals across the world to document the salutary impact of everyday, wild and mystical encounters with nature, music, visual art, literature, religion, the birth of children, and the death of loved ones
Psychology Today -
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
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