#133 BITESIZE | Why Kindness Is Contagious and How to Make It Spread | David Hamilton
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dr Rangan Chatterjee
4.8 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Every act of kindness is significant and has more impact than you can imagine.
Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my new weekly podcast for your mind, body and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my best former guests. This week’s guest is pharmacist-turned-author Dr David Hamilton.
David explains why kindness is contagious and how just one small act of kindness is proven to have a ripple effect that reaches over 100 more people.
When you’re kind to someone, it’s not just that person who benefits. Kindness makes you happier. It’s good for your heart and helps support your immune system. It slows ageing and it also improves relationships. He explains why your kindness matters and how you can take up the 7 Day Kindness Challenge. Kindness is important now more than ever – let’s help it spread.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feel Better, live more bite-sized. |
| 0:03.6 | This is a brand new format that I'm experimenting with each week on a Friday. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm going to release a very short inspirational clip from one of my previous podcast conversations. |
| 0:14.7 | The goal is to inject a little bit of optimism and a feel-good vibe into your life |
| 0:20.7 | and get you ready for the weekend. |
| 0:22.2 | Today's clip is only five minutes long and it's from episode 104 of the podcast |
| 0:27.7 | with the brilliant pharmacist, turned author, Dr. David Hamilton. |
| 0:32.4 | Now, David explains why kindness is contagious and how just one small act of kindness is proven |
| 0:39.2 | to have a ripple effect that reaches over 100 more people. I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:47.1 | You said that kindness is contagious. |
| 0:49.4 | A study, I put you in Harvard and Yale, they looked at it, they did a clever little business |
| 0:55.0 | game simulation. A lot of these studies are done in little simulations. You create a game |
| 1:01.2 | and what you secretly measuring is kindness or cooperative behaviour. |
| 1:05.0 | And what they found is if you be kind to someone, then because of how that person feels, |
| 1:11.2 | they call it elevation. That person feels either connected to you or they feel |
| 1:17.2 | uplifted or they feel grateful, it doesn't really matter. It's a feeling, a change feeling. |
| 1:22.5 | That person will likely be kind or kinder to someone else because of how you made them feel. |
| 1:28.1 | Now, that person now is at one social step from your one degree of separation, |
| 1:32.1 | but that person will be kind or kinder to someone else because of how they were made to feel. |
| 1:38.4 | That's at two degrees of separation. But then that person will be kind or kinder to someone else. |
| 1:43.7 | At three degrees of separation or three social stops, but that isn't real practice because in |
| 1:48.0 | reality, given the average amount of interconnectedness, amount of interactions that we have in |
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