Volunteer Nation

57. The Compassionate Instinct & Bringing Wonder Back to Work with Dacher Keltner


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In today's episode, Tobi features Dacher Keltner and discusses the compassionate instinct, bringing wonder and awe back into our lives, and becoming more resilient.

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. He is a renowned expert in the science of human emotion, studying compassion and awe, how we express emotion, and how emotions guide our moral identities and search for meaning. His research interests also span the issues of power. He has written a new book on awe and has a podcast called "Science of Happiness" that offers practices for how to feel stronger, even when doing hard work like volunteering.

Full show notes: 057– The Compassionate Instinct & Bringing Wonder Back to Work with Dacher Keltner

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