From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
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Compassion creates your happy brain
From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
Compassion creates your happy brain
- What's also amazing, is that even if you're not the recipient of some act of kindness, let's say for example, I see you do an act of kindness to someone else. Even the fact that I'm just seeing you do that will give me a greater incentive to do an act of kindness to someone else in the next hour. Sadly, the converse is also true. If I see you do something negative or do something hostile to someone else, whether it's at work or someplace in your life, or even if I'm the recipient of that act of negativity, I'm now more inclined to do something harmful or negative, or maybe say something which is hurtful or harmful to someone else. So in the same way, we talked about the social brain. The social brain is conditioned to do good when it sees good, the social, but is also conditioned to do bad when it sees bad, as well. This is why it's so important to cultivate the pillar of compassion, being empathetic, being…
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