2026-03-05
8 分钟Welcome to Happiness Break by the Science of Happiness.
I'm Dacher Keltner.
Each episode serves as a short break in our day to try practices and meditations shown to make us happier.
This week, we're practicing how to be more curious.
Because research shows that when we are, it helps us to be more present,
puts us in a better mood, sparks our creativity,
and it can even make our relationships more satisfying.
We're going to be led in a visualization practice by Scott Shigeoka,
where we imagine ourselves experiencing a difficult situation,
but through a curious lens, one where we're keeping a cool, open mind.
Studies show that visualizing ourselves doing something difficult helps us meet that challenge when we actually face it.
Scott is the author of the new book, Seek, How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Save the World.
So find somewhere you feel comfortable.
closing your eyes for five minutes or so and enjoy this practice in cultivating curiosity.
Here's Scott.
Hi, everyone.
I'm so excited to share this visualization exercise to help you drop into your deep curiosity for your next conversation.
It's really taking a cue out of mental rehearsal, which comes from sports.
So the idea that when you visualize yourself hitting a ball with a baseball bat or throwing a free throw at the basketball line,
you're more likely to do it when you practice it in your mind through a visualization.