Dacher Keltner, Social Psychologist, UC Berkeley explains how emotions like gratitude and compassion can help you with stress. (And our gratitude to frontier thinkers reimagining our future.) So how do you create a society that is addicted to health? “When we are in emotions like gratitude or compassion, it is almost impossible, physically, to be stressed. They just are antithetical, anatomically.” These words have stayed with us since our 2011 interview with Social Psychologist, Dacher Keltner. And, at a time like this, we would like to remember the power of these emotions which shape our social contracts and the advancement of a more cooperative, civil society. So, with this in mind, we, at Sputnik would like to show our gratitude to the frontier thinkers who are reimagining our future. People like Ryan Bethencourt, Wild Earth, who champions animal sentience. To Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao, co-founders of BioCellection who are creating a better way to navigate our plastic problems. To Agam Khare founder of Absolute Foods inventing the future of sustainable vertical farms. To Mara Zepada, the Zebra rethinking Unicorns. To Dan Grushkin of the Biodesign Challenge giving a voice to a new generation of biodesigners and the list can go on and on and on. In this time of stress let’s give gratitude to the voices of tomorrow and let’s all challenge ourselves to create a society that is addicted to health.
Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
Wild Earth: https://wildearth.com/
BioCellection: https://www.biocellection.com/
Absolute Foods, India: https://www.absolutefoods.in/
Zebras Unite: https://www.zebrasunite.com/
Biodesign Challenge: https://biodesignchallenge.org/
Dacher Keltner, Psychologist, On The Power of Emotions Like Gratitude