I think it's a sad irony / that / we are as a world /obsessed with positive emotions. // In fact, // often / we end up / in this situation of toxic positivity. // What toxic positivity does / is it / really / takes away / the ability for us / to experience the full / richness /of our emotional portfolio. // If we / focus so heavily on / positive emotions, / we're missing out / on the richness / of both negative emotions / but also / these mixed emotions / that really help us metabolize / what happens in the world. // What's amazing about wonder / is that / it's both positive and negative / at the same time. // Wonder / is not just this / positive self-transcendent experience. // There is a certain level of conflict. // Think of a / butterfly coming out / of a chrysalis. // There's violence there, // there's terror there, // but then / there's the beauty. // And so / having / a greater emotional portfolio, / being able to tap into a lot of different types of emotions / to express how we're feeling, / actually makes us more resilient / because we're able / to better make sense / of what's happening to us / in our world. // And I think that / that / is what / makes wonder / so impactful. // When I / introduce the concept of wonder, / I think people // believe it's really amorphous / and spiritual,/ and it can be that, // but it's also very grounded / and concrete. // It's about saying, / I am going to / see wonder in my day-to-day life. // One of the ways to do that / is with wonderbringers. // They're / whatever brings you / a sense of wonder.// A great / indication / that you are in the presence of a wonderbringer / is it gives you goosebumps. // Nature // is a / really fundamental primary way that many people find wonder. // We then have social / we can find a sense of wonder from the people around us, / our families, and our friends, / or a charismatic speaker / could be / a social wonderbringer. //