{"id":19619,"date":"2022-07-05T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=19619"},"modified":"2022-07-23T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:02:43","slug":"awe-and-a-meaningful-life","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/awe-and-a-meaningful-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Awe and a Meaningful Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dacher Keltner, PhD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the founding director of the university\u2019s Greater Good Science Center (GGSC). He is the host of the GGSC\u2019s award-winning podcast, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Science of Happiness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is a co-instructor of the GGSC\u2019s popular online course of the same name. He has devoted his career to studying the nature of human goodness and happiness, conducting groundbreaking research on compassion, awe, laughter, and love. He is also the bestselling author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is a coeditor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in addition to more than 100 scientific papers and two bestselling textbooks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this podcast, Sounds True\u2019s founder, Tami Simon, speaks with Dr. Dacher Keltner about his inspiring work and his exploration of how the experience of awe, gratitude, empathy, and other prosocial emotions is intimately tied to our capacity to live a life of meaning. 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