It’s “not limited to a gender, ethnicity, or age.” Things like bouncy puppies and marigold sunsets evoke joy across the globe.įetell Lee’s epiphanies inspired her mission today.
She began exploring joy: What creates it? How do you feel it? Where is it? Poring over research and anecdotal insights, Fetell Lee noticed reoccurring qualities-from a sense of abundance to feelings of lightness “when you’re lifted in a hot air balloon or gazing up at the clouds”- evoked from experiencing certain things. “I thought that was weird,” she tells me about the comment. While in design school, a professor casually said that Fetell Lee’s work offered a sense of joy. The truth is, Fetell Lee learned how to cultivate joy as an adult. Almost like she holds magical receptors that attract it like lightning. To experience Fetell Lee’s work, including reading her uplifting book Joyful and watching her Ted Talk (which has more than 17 million views ), is to assume she was born with a superhuman ability to feel endless joy. But then it goes away, and you wait for it to come again.” “It was a bit like luck: If you get some, great. “I used to think of joy as this ephemeral, fleeting feeling,” says the joy expert, designer, and author. Ingrid Fetell Lee admits joy was once elusive to her.
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