The list immediately follows her short reflection on the journey from the comment made during her first design review in graduate school: “your work gives me a feeling of joy,” through collecting images people identified as joyful, to distilling them into ten “aesthetics of joy” that form the chapters for the book. Do I really have to consider this? I don’t think I want to know the real answer.Īnd on through the nine sets of questions on the list…now full of trepidation for what I was about to have to consider about my life, I plunged ahead. How highly does your significant other or family value joy? Unfettered? I don’t really do unfettered…joy? I’m not sure. When was the last time you felt a true, unfettered moment of joy? Um, sometimes…does the kind of laugh matter? Probably not more than a couple of times per day…I don’t count. I read the list of questions in the introduction with interest and a growing sense of trepidation. In the introduction of her 2018 book, Ingrid Fetell Lee poses a list of questions to help her readers think about whether their surroundings feel joyful. Title: Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happinessĭo the places where you live and work feel joyful?
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