Oprah Winfrey

I love how you begin the book, your introduction.

This is funny to me.

You said, I have taught happiness to hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

It's not obvious why I ended up doing this work.

I've been a pretty wound up, anxious person for significant chunks of my life.

And I love this, and was thrown out of my first meditation class for laughing while we chanted, I am a being of purple fire.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Oprah Podcast.

I'm so pleased, honored, actually, that you chose to spend time with us here, where my intention is to offer some inspiration and maybe a bit of breathing space from the hustle of your day or from the endless barrage of news hitting your timeline.

I hope you all are watching that, being careful about that, because it can just be too much.

But I'm excited for you to hear from my guest today because he spent decades studying, searching, researching for the secret to this question.

How can we live a good life?

Yeah, that's really what we all are in search of, right?

How can we live a good life?

And he says the answer is really simple and something any one of us can access at any time and anywhere.

no matter your background, no matter your circumstances.

His name is Dacher Keltner, and he's a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the host of the award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness.

I didn't even know there was such a podcast until researching for this.

And I just recently read his bestselling book, Awe.

the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life.

Now, I read it and thought, this man is speaking my language, and that's why he's now here in the tea house.