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How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay (Best Of)

2025/5/31
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Ross Gay: 我认为快乐从根本上是一种连接的实践。现在我写了这本书，我感觉我对“快乐”这个词有了一个相当不错的定义。快乐是我们积极实践与他人联系时产生的感觉，这种感觉证明了我们之间存在根本的联系。快乐使我们意识到彼此和世界之间的联系，从而促使我们去爱、治愈和支持彼此。我最悲伤的时刻是我感到与世隔绝的时候，而最快乐的时刻是我意识到并参与到这种联系中。通过园艺、跳舞等方式，我可以练习融入这种联系。

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Ross Gay, a poet and essayist, emphasizes the importance of joy as a practice of connection, entanglement with others, and awareness of our interconnectedness with the world. He challenges the notion that joy is frivolous during hard times, arguing that it's a serious practice of connection and belonging.
  • Joy is a practice of connection and entanglement with others.
  • It's the evidence of participating in connection.
  • To experience joy means to actively practice being entangled with one another.

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Ross Gay teaches us how to notice delight and joy in our everyday lives. We discuss: concrete ways to rediscover and capture joy every day; how to rebuild your “delight muscle”; how to dissolve the myth of disconnection between us; and how to “unknow” our people so we can delight in them.

About Ross: 

Ross Gay is an American poet, essayist, and professor committed to healing the world through observing and articulating joy, delight and gratitude. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. A devoted community gardener, Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. A college football player, he is a founding editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin'.

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