Description

Tara Cousineau discusses her book, The Kindness Cure: How The Science of Compassion Can Heal Your World. We learn how to counteract our natural negativity bias with a little daily effort, and how each one of us can become a kindness warrior. Tara is a clinical psychologist at Harvard University's counseling and mental health services, a mindfulness meditation teacher, well-being researcher and social entrepreneur.

In This Episode

• 00:58 - What happened to kindness
• 08:49 - Being kind takes practice
• 11:40 -  Our negativity bias
• 12:54 - How to cultivate a positivity bias
• 18:43 - Good leadership is kind
• 20:37 - Mindfulness
• 22:00 - Kindfulness: being in the present moment with heart
• 31:32 -We’re living under a S.P.E.L (self-protective empathy lethargy)
• 34:35 - The 3 Degrees of influence rule

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