Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
We're paying attention as tools for living — practices — emerge in this season of On Being conversations.
In our first episode, social scientist Dacher Keltner offers the “Awe Walk”. Next time you step outside…
1) Go “in search of awe” 🧭
2) Welcome goosebumps✨(hear about the special kind that correlates with awe in this week's episode). Be on the lookout for these as a sensory cue, a sign to tune into something curious or surprising in your surroundings.
3) Gather these noticings along the way — see what they work in you.
4) You might try to capture some of this texture — with a photo, video, by reflecting with a friend, or journaling.
And… enjoy!
🎧You can hear Krista’s full interview with Dacher Keltner here: youtu.be/K-0JpJjPe74
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Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding director of the Greater Good Science Center. He hosts the podcast "The Science of Happiness". His latest book is "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life".
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We're paying attention as tools for living — practices — emerge in this season of On Being conversations.
In our first episode, social scientist Dacher Keltner offers the “Awe Walk”. Next time you step outside…
1) Go “in search of awe” 🧭
2) Welcome goosebumps✨(hear about the special kind that correlates with awe in this week's episode). Be on the lookout for these as a sensory cue, a sign to tune into something curious or surprising in your surroundings.
3) Gather these noticings along the way — see what they work in you.
4) You might try to capture some of this texture — with a photo, video, by reflecting with a friend, or journaling.
And… enjoy!
🎧You can hear Krista’s full interview with Dacher Keltner here: youtu.be/K-0JpJjPe74
ABOUT
Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding director of the Greater Good Science Center. He hosts the podcast "The Science of Happiness". His latest book is "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life".
STAY IN TOUCH
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
TikTok: tiktok.com/@onbeing
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
The Pause newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
Poetry Unbound: onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound
![[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y9exAbF0wVY/mqdefault.jpg "[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett
You may not know Latanya Sweeneys name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our lives.
In this conversation with Krista, she brings a helpful big-picture view to our lives with technology, seeing how far weve come — and not — since the advent of the internet, and setting that in the context of history both industrial and digital. She insists that we dont have to accept the harms of digital technology in order to reap its benefits — and she sees very clearly the work that will take. From where she sits, the new generative AI is in equal measure an exciting and alarming evolution. And she shares with us the questions she is asking, and how she and her students and the emerging field of Public Interest Technology might help us all make sense.
This is the second in what will be an ongoing occasional On Being episode to delve into and accompany our lives with this new technological revolution — training clear eyes on downsides and dangers while cultivating an attention to how we might elevate the new frontier of AI — and how, in fact, it might invite us more deeply into our humanity.
This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W96Pt7OXc
Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo
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![[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z7cZhPLk09k/mqdefault.jpg "[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smiths writing: in the marrow of our bones. It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it.
Clint Smith is best known for his 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed (@LittlebrownandCo) but he is first and foremost a poet. He and Krista discuss how his various life chapters have been real-world laboratories for him to investigate the entanglement between language and the intelligence of the body — and the related entanglement between history and place. His poetic sensibility has singularly opened readers to approach a generative reckoning with American history — on whatever side of that history our ancestors stood.
Clint Smith has a way of making reckoning possible at a humanizing, softening, bodily level — in the marrow, you might say, of our bones.
This interview is extended and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode Clint Smith — What We Know in the Marrow of Our Bones. Listen here: https://youtu.be/PmD9Stf2EY8
Animation by: Neon Zoo, @weareneonzoo
ABOUT THE ON BEING PROJECT
An adventure in the mystery and the art of living
A home for shaping your presence in a tender, tumultuous world
A companion to the pleasure in thinking deeply with others
A calling to be part of the generative story of our time
THE PODCAST
Twenty years of culture-shifting classics: Mary Oliver, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, and many many more. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
On Being with Krista Tippett: https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/
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