2016-05-22
59 分钟So I'll just say, in short, that wonder is like.
It is the emotional, cognitive, aesthetic experience that most cracks us open to what is real and to what is here and what is true.
It is the experience that opens us up to that.
It's at the heart of the creative impulse.
And once I started to understand that, I also realized that it was wonder as part of what I've been pursuing all along.
That when I was grieving my imagination, it was in part that desire to have that space of wonder.
When this week's guest, Jeffrey Davis, was just a little kid, he started journaling and thinking about paying attention and not losing his imagination.
Pretty unusual for a young kid.
That turned into a deep fascination with language and creativity that led him to become a poet and a teacher.
But in the middle of his life, he also realized that he was living essentially from the neck up and kind of a disembodied existence and had left his heart and his body behind.
So that set him off on a journey of deep personal discovery and also international travel.
And he came back with a renewed vision on life and a renewed vision on what he wanted to do with his life.
He's since returned to poetry and to teaching, and he started a really fascinating consulting firm called Tracking Wonder, which really helps people track wonder in their own lives and bring more of it into their careers, their professions, and every essence of their day.
So really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
It's so good to be hanging out with you, man.
You too.
On a Friday afternoon at hq on the Upper west side.
Yeah.
Jeffrey Davis.