From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
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Making kindness contagious
From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
Making kindness contagious
- The challenge sometimes is to engender that sense of compassionate and empathy outside times of crisis. How do we do this every day of our life, 365 days of the year? One way to do this is something that I talk about in the book, which I do in my life, and that is based on brain science research, what I call making happiness contagious. What does that look like? We live here in New York and it's a very busy city, and sometimes we don't always allow other people to maybe cut in front of us in their car lane, or maybe open the door for someone. What we're finding in the brain science research, if you actually allow someone to perhaps cut in your lane during rush hour on the busy highway, or you open the door for someone you don't know, or even say hello to someone on the street, believe it or not, the person who was the recipient of your act of kindness now has over a 50% chance of doing another act of kindness to…
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