Why bother with kindness?
In this video, Jeff Bezos discusses the difference between talent and your choices. He tells a poignant story of making his grandmother cry and the lesson of choice.
We are all talented. We live in a world that champions talent. Talent wins the day over and over again. But, as Bezos points out, talent is a gift. It’s not something we work for. It’s not even something you develop. Talent is innate, a gift given by genetics or God or some quirky soul that invaded our body at birth.
Kindness is a choice.
It’s not a very natural choice either. It’s not like the hard choice to eat french fries over fruit. It’s not the easy choice to pee before a long race. It’s not a confusing choice of which college to go to or even if you should graduate from high school. It’s not even like the life changing choice to marry this person or that person.
Kindness is a cognitive decision to do something against parts of your nature.
So why do it?
I mean really. Kindness is hard. We’re all super busy. No one becomes a millionaire by being kind (or do they). And really aren’t we supposed to be aggressive, get our goals met, bash the man, or whatever our passion is?
Why be kind? Why bother?
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