Snow cranes that circle a Bhutanese monastery prayer pole exactly three times before migrating to Siberia, in sync with monks who emerge to chant at the moment the birds arrive, is not a local legend. A Berkeley professor of psychology witnessed it, wept, and says it launched his scientific career studying awe.
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder, and the scientific consultant behind Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2. He has surveyed 2,600 people across 26 countries on the experience of awe and identified eight categories he calls the wonders of life.
In this episode, Rajan Datar asks what happens when the scientist studying transcendence actually experiences it, and whether the bullying, the homesickness, and the punk records that upended a teenage Californian in 1970s Nottingham were doing something that could only have happened far from home.
Check out more from Dacher:
https://www.dacherkeltner.com/
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