Georgia- Awe definitely has different significance than 'happiness.' And I'd agree that happiness mostly is a momentary 'satisfaction,' which is quite a bit different than finding meaning, let alone fulfillment. I appreciate this reminder. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Thank you Thalia--My intention was to honor your mission, which is to create a world in which everyone facing something new can wake up unsettled every day. While the conversation around happiness goes back several decades, the science and investigations to make awe more specific, more real, impressed many of the exceptionally talented professionals and communicators in our community. For example, there are happiness books and happiness coaches and explorations on the topic as a noun. Awe is not a noun when it comes to the human experience with it. On the plus side, awe is all around us and abundantly free--and comes to us through all senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) as it appears in the eight wonders of life: Moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spiritual and religious stories, life and death stories, and epiphanies and big ideas.
Georgia- Awe definitely has different significance than 'happiness.' And I'd agree that happiness mostly is a momentary 'satisfaction,' which is quite a bit different than finding meaning, let alone fulfillment. I appreciate this reminder. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Thank you Thalia--My intention was to honor your mission, which is to create a world in which everyone facing something new can wake up unsettled every day. While the conversation around happiness goes back several decades, the science and investigations to make awe more specific, more real, impressed many of the exceptionally talented professionals and communicators in our community. For example, there are happiness books and happiness coaches and explorations on the topic as a noun. Awe is not a noun when it comes to the human experience with it. On the plus side, awe is all around us and abundantly free--and comes to us through all senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, and smell) as it appears in the eight wonders of life: Moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spiritual and religious stories, life and death stories, and epiphanies and big ideas.