![]() It was like these little moments of joy were hidden in plain sight. It was like I had a pair of rose-colored glasses, and now that I knew what to look for, I was seeing it everywhere. When I gave my TED talk, I put it this way: ![]() The world seemed to be teeming with tiny, joyful surprises. Whereas before I might have ignored the man sitting next to me on the subway, now I noticed his polka dotted socks and smiled. Whereas before I might not have looked twice at the orange traffic cones on the street, now I savored their pops of color against the gray sidewalk. Luminous bubbles floating across the subway tracks. A cluster of balloons tied to a fire escape. An elderly woman with a shock of magenta hair. ![]() It was the early days of The Aesthetics of Joy (2009 to be exact) and I began to notice that I was becoming more attuned to the joy in my surroundings as I walked through the city. I started joyspotting before I really knew what I was doing. ![]()
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