I was dancing with my daughter, my youngest daughter, who's a raging goofball.
So we were high energy, dancing, having fun, and at one point I grabbed her hands.
So we started dancing with our hands.
And we're not doing the same thing, but we were touching.
And at that moment, it really sunk into me, really hit home, the connection.
And of course, this is my daughter.
I'm highly connected with her to begin with.
But in that moment, in that practice doing that, I'm like,
wow, this is about being with people and feeling that connection with people.
And dancing is like that.
Even if it's just to celebrate somebody's wedding or
because you just want to go out and have fun with your friends,
you're bringing people together.
And I think it's centered around that.
And it actually made me think of NASA and what we do and the connections you make with the people you work with,
because it's all about doing something together, bringing people together to achieve something.
Welcome to the Science of Happiness.
I'm Dacher Keltner.
Dancing is something that unites us across cultures and time and in many ways embodies what it means to be human.
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