{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6658c69d29c918001158ec0e/6aa79b5bc939da2795669ec1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Transformative Power of Learning and Awe","description":"<p>What if the story you tell about yourself is already out of date?</p><p><br></p><p>In today's solo episode, I explore the psychology of awe and why it might be the key to staying curious for a lifetime. I share memories from my teaching career, a childhood thunderstorm in Alabama, and watching my four-year-old grandsons encounter the world for the first time, all as ways of asking: what still has the power to make your world feel larger?</p><p><br></p><p>Tune in and listen to the <strong>fifty-fourth episode</strong> of <strong>I Can Do This, Show Me How!</strong> I trace my own path from adult community college student to English professor and how that journey reshaped the way I understood myself. Drawing on a 2003 article by psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt, I explore two ideas that changed how I think about growth: vastness, the sense that the world is bigger than we assumed, and the need for accommodation: the moment our old self-concept can no longer hold what we've become.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Learning Points</strong></p><ul><li><strong>[02:39]</strong> Reaching financial and personal stability, but noticing a new sense of alignment between work and sense of self.</li><li><strong>[05:02]</strong> Keltner and Haidt's 2003 article on awe and its two core concepts: vastness and the need for accommodation.</li><li><strong>[09:50]</strong> The idea of self-expansion: the moment your own evidence no longer supports the old story you told about yourself.</li><li><strong>[12:15]</strong> Awe isn't always comfortable. It can be beautiful and frightening at once.</li><li><strong>[17:06] </strong>The word \"yet\" and how it keeps us open to not knowing.&nbsp;</li><li><strong>[21:52] </strong>How other people's stories can expand our understanding, and how comfort with uncertainty becomes a source of energy rather than fear.</li><li><strong>[28:59] </strong>Sit with the question: what still has the ability to make your world feel larger?</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/series/the_science_of_happiness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Science of Happiness</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Let's Connect!</strong></p><ul><li>My Email: ldroseconsulting@gmail.com</li><li>Mentor International:<a href=\"https://www.mentorfoundationusa.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> www.mentorfoundationusa.org</a></li><li>Mentor:<a href=\"https://www.mentoring.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> www.mentoring.org</a></li><li>Ashoka Changemakers:<a href=\"https://www.ashoka.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> www.ashoka.org</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Dr. Linda Rose"}