2025-07-24
10 分钟How much awe and wonder do you experience in your life?
From the John Templeton Foundation, our sponsors at the Science of Happiness,
the Templeton Ideas podcast explores the most awe-inspiring ideas in our world with the people who investigate them.
Host Tom Burnett sits down with inspiring thinkers like Alison Gopnik,
David Brooks, Tyler Cowens, and Gretchen Rubin.
to discuss how their investigations have transformed their lives and how they may transform yours.
Learn more at templeton.org slash podcast.
Pause for a moment if you can and think about a time where you really felt joy.
Maybe it was reuniting with a friend, a dinner party,
a lazy Saturday afternoon, or achieving a milestone.
Hold that thought, because today we're going to practice feeling joy,
strengthening that feeling and the memory of that feeling.
There are different explanations of what joy is.
The American Psychological Association defines it as a feeling of extreme gladness,
delight, or exaltation of the spirit.
For me, joy is the feeling of delight we experience when we're free from our mundane life,
the transactional concerns of our daily living.
It's a feeling of lightness and abundance and freedom.
Just as we have learned that focusing on the negative can overtax our bodies and minds by increasing hormones like cortisol,
we know that joy has the opposite effect.