The addJOY Podcast

S3 E2 Awe + Wonderment: Be Stunned by the Wondrousness of a Thing!

Episode Summary

In today's episode, our founders, Sofia B. Packard (Mari) + Harriet E. Giles (Kanika), discuss who is most likely to experience feelings of awe and wonderment and how we typically find these feelings in the world. If you're enjoying, like, subscribe, and review and head over to the merch shop at www.shopthejoyrx.com and tell everybody you're a #joyjawn Opening Music: Ten Times Mood by Elliot Holmes Outro Music: Last Train by Elliot Holmes Interlude Music: Some Catalan Mysteries by Redeemin'

Episode Notes

• Who experiences awe most naturally?
  • Children 
  • Older people
  • Women
  • Income and location are not as important as one may think
  • Spirituality and awe are connected

The Most Common Source of Awe: Moral Beauty

• Kindness
• Strength
• Overcoming adversity
• Actions of strangers
• “Exceptional virtue, character, and ability, marked by a purity and goodness of intention and action”