#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

Welcome to the Furnham Street podcast called The Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parish, the curator behind the blog Furnham Street. which is an online community focused on mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. The Knowledge Project is where we talk with interesting people to uncover frameworks you can use to learn more and less time, make better decisions, and live a happier, more meaningful life. On this episode I have Dr. Keltner. He's been a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, attaining full professorship since 2002.

His writing spans the world of emotion and power. He's the author of several books, including Born to Be Good and Understanding Emotions. His latest book, The Power Paradox, explores our limited understanding of power and influence, including how we gain and lose power. I'm pleased to have Daker Keltner on the show. I wanna talk in broad themes about some of the things that you've been studying and writing about.

So much of your work surrounds the role of emotion in human life, especially positive emotions like awe and compassion and love. Give me a primer on emotion. Yeah, you know, so My Interests in emotion and and really I think that the the primer for the scientific study of emotion begins with Charles Darwin and then also

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