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Kindness: The Win-Win Superpower

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D. & Leon Logothetis

Everybody benefits when kindness comes from a place of empathy and compassion. So go be kind – you’ll change a life and change the world.

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In this Episode of The Human Upgrade™...

… the conversation centers on what kindness is, how to practice it, and why it matters. Kindness is a powerful tool it helps people feel less alone and truly makes the world a more joyful and tolerant place. The two insightful guests you’ll hear from in this episode – Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., and Leon Logothetis – will leave you feeling lighter, more optimistic and, well, kinder!

“There's all sorts of evidence that kindness is our kind of superpower. It's a superpower hidden in plain sight in a way.”

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.

About Jamil:

Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., uses tools from psychology and neuroscience to help you understand how empathy works. As a professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, he explains how kindness is a learnable skill. You can use it in your life more often.

“Kindness is, obviously, I think the most important for us as a collective,” Jamil says. “We need to cooperate, we need to work together, and that’s whether you’re in a family or a company or a culture.”

Jamil’s kindness research includes empathy and compassion to form a triad. “Kindness is a behavior that benefits another person,” he explains. Scientists view empathy like a big umbrella term for emotional connection and then compassion as one of the components of emotional connectedness to others.

You can dive into more of his research in his book, “The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World.”

About Leon: 

Leon Logothetis invites you to join the kindness rebellion. He’s certain you’ll find wealth in health and happiness, success in inner peace and a definite cool factor in being kind.

“Kindness is simply helping someone feel less alone,” Leon says. “That’s it. When you make someone feel like they matter, when you see someone, when you take someone’s loneliness or depression and transform it by simply being kind, that’s quite a profound way to be.”

Leon’s a motivational speaker, adventurer and philanthropist known as the “The Kindness Guy.” His travels take him all over the world looking for and spreading kindness (binge watch both seasons of “The Kindness Diaries”). He speaks to children and adults at schools and companies about the importance of being kind in the world. He says empathy has a lot to do with that.

“One of the most powerful ways to, let’s say, create kindness in a human being is to teach empathy,” Leon says. “Because we can really only experience our own experiences, so the use of empathy is a very profound tool to inspire people to treat others with dignity.”

Check out his latest book: “Go Be Kind-A Life-Changing Little Journal: 28½ Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier,” to find out how you can get in on the kindness movement.

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