If you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:

“A lot of the trends in the economy, in family life have just been much harder for working class men.”

What separates a disciplined life from a virtuous one? Psychologist Sarah Schnitker says the answer lies in your purpose.

“The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.”

Virtue is hard to attain, and that’s the point. Sarah Schnitker explains why self-help shortcuts miss the mark.

“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”

“There's a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can't be true in part because my life was saved by a stranger a long time ago when I was 19.”

“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”