Hello and welcome to the new Mindset Who-This podcast. My name is Case Kenny at

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dedicated to helping you become the person you're meant to be leave

your comfort zone and live a purposeful and fulfilling life.

Let's go. Oh, All right. Welcome to episode 639. Hello my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who this as always

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kindness in life.

Like I really stand behind being a kind person, giving and giving and

assuming positive intent and withholding negative judgment and

reading resentment from your inner life. For me this is this idea has just opened me

up to so much goodness and good people and good opportunity,

being kind, giving first, instead of adopting the easier mentality, which is it's a dog eat dog

world, you gotta protect yourself first, everyone sucks, you should only match energy.

And, you know, usually I point to my experience as to why leading with kindness comes back to you like a boomerang every time. But today I want to point to an article that maybe will put some extra sauce on that about why giving first being the giver being the giver being the kind open eager person first rather than being the

defensive the skeptic the savage the take what you can get person why this mentality leads to more joy and success in life giving first.

And so the thing that inspired this one in particular

is it's an article from the New York Times it was written by

Adam Grant which basically says that in negotiations givers are smarter than

takers aka being a generous person is a sign of high intelligence. And I'll summarize you here because it's good within the context of business, but then we'll obviously zoom out to be more just a general mindset. But basically Grant talks about how in 2010 there was this woman,

Christina Figueres, who was tasked with something that many people said it was

really impossible, which was getting almost 200 countries to agree on a plan to fight climate change together.

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