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Awe

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Last discussed Sep 28, 2026

A book by Dacher Keltner that explores the neurocognitive processes involved when experiencing awe and why it provides deep peace.

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Michael Pollan
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Praised: Describes a compelling experiment demonstrating awe's ego-diminishing effects

"Dacher Keltner, who's a colleague of mine at Berkeley, studies awe. He wrote a wonderful book on awe. He did this cool experiment where he asked people to draw a picture of themselves just a stick figure on a piece of graph paper and then he gave ..."

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Peter Attia
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"One of the people who works in my area, Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley, he has a book called Awe, that talks about the neurocognitive processes involved when you're experiencing awe and why it gives you such deep peace."

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