finding awe amid the ordinary
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- Researchers speculated that the experience of awe might increase participants’ sense of time-availability, which might in turn lead people to act more generously with their time, and enhance overall well-being.
from How Awe Stops Your Clock by Jesse Graham
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- One of the most reliable ways to experience awe, Dr. Keltner found, was in the simple act of witnessing the goodness of others
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Many of the best and most spiritually nourishing things in life are all too often rendered invisible by the tyrannies of time, money and force of habit.
from Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor by Henry Wismayer
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- Experiencing awe comes from what Dr. Keltner has called a “perceived vastness,” as well as something that challenges us to rethink our previously held ideas
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- Awe, she believes, is “the absence of self-preoccupation.”
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People assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?
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- Our bodies respond differently when we are experiencing awe than when we are feeling joy, contentment or fear. We make a different sound, show a different facial expression. Dr. Keltner found that awe activates the vagal nerves, clusters of neurons in the spinal cord that regulate various bodily functions, and slows our heart rate, relieves digesti... See more
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