Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

- Dacher Keltner

, there was no wisdom of admiration, the feeling we witness when we encounter vast mystifications that transcend our understanding of the world. Scientists were studying feelings like fear and nausea, feelings that sounded essential to mortal survival. Revolutionary thinking, however, has brought into focus how, through the span of elaboration, we ’ve met our utmost introductory requirements socially. We ’ve survived thanks to our capacities to cooperate, form communities, and produce culture that strengthens our sense of participated identity — conduct that are sparked and prodded by admiration.

In Awe, Dacher Keltner presents a radical disquisition and deeply particular inquiry into this fugitive emotion. Revealing new exploration into how admiration transforms our smarts and bodies, alongside an examination of admiration across history, culture, and within his own life during a period of grief, Keltner shows us how cultivating admiration in our everyday life leads us to appreciate what's most humane in our mortal nature. And during a moment in which our world feels more disunited than ever ahead, and further gambled by heads of different kinds, we're greatly in need ofawe.However, it's admiration that sharpens our logic and orients us toward big ideas and new perceptivity, that cools our vulnerable system’s inflammation response and strengthens our bodies, If we open our minds. It's admiration that activates our inclination to partake and produce strong networks, to take conduct that are good for the natural and social world around us. It's admiration that transforms who we are, that inspires the creation of art, music, and religion. At turns radical and profound, brimming with informational and practical perceptivity, Awe is our field companion, from not only one of the leading voices on the subject but a fellow candidate of admiration in his own right, for how to place admiration as a vital force within our lives.

About the author

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. A famed expert in the wisdom of mortal emotion,Dr. Keltner studies compassion and admiration, how we express emotion, and how feelings guide our moral individualities and search for meaning. His exploration interests also gauge issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He's the author of The Power Paradox and the bestselling book Born to Be Good, and the coeditor of The Compassionate Instinct. -- This textbook refers to the hardcover edition.

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