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Apr 2023
57m 7s

How to Incite Joy with Ross Gay

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In This Episode, You'll Learn

  • How his “delight” project was about learning to pay attention
  • Discovering that joy and delight are abundant if you are looking and paying attention
  • Defining joy and all that accompanies this profound emotion
  • How talking about joy and gratitude helps with the difficulties in life
  • The importance of laughter and how it connects us to joy
  • Why we need to slow down and listen to our bodies
  • How busyness is a way of avoiding or escaping 
  • How writing can be a tool for self discovery and gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves

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