“We rise by lifting others up.”
Robert Ingersoll
Did you know?
Most of us are guilty of the fundamental attribution error – assuming someone is difficult or flawed instead of considering what they’re dealing with behind the scenes.
Kindness at work
Kindness at work builds psychological safety. One small gesture like a colleague saying ‘You take this part, I’ll cover the rest’ tells your system you’re supported and safe.
Kindness is how we show up for ourselves and each other - not through big gestures but in everyday ways that make life feel a little softer, a little more human.
We want to bring our best selves to life but in a world that moves this fast and stretches us like it does, our good intentions and capacity for being patient, warm, generous, can get squeezed.
And the first person we drop from the list is usually ourselves – we compare, we self-doubt, we feel guilty, we feel ‘not enough’.
Everything changes when you have just a little more breathing room – in your schedule, your head and your expectations of yourself. When life feels less tightly wound, you naturally meet yourself and others with more softness, lifting both them and you.
Psychology spotlight – Empathic dissonance
Constant online suffering can numb your empathy because there’s too much to take in. Real-life kindness snaps you out of that shutdown and makes you feel human again.
Inside the body
That warm feeling you get when you do a good deed? It’s a biological response known as ‘helper’s high’. Being kind triggers a release of oxytocin, which calms your stress system and steadies your heart rate
