Why You Should Seek More Awe in the New Year - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

These three stories of awe—the scientific, the cultural, and the personal—converge on an understanding of how we can find awe.

around us? Now, twenty years into teaching happiness, I have an answer: FIND AWE.

In Awe: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion, neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall defines awe as an “overwhelming and bewildering sense of connection with a startling universe that is usually far beyond the narrow band of our consciousness.” And not surprisingly, this nature-inspired awe is also good for our health. A landmark study by Jenn