Welcome to the Science of Success with your host, Matt Bodner.

Welcome to the Science of Success. I'm your host, Matt Bodner. I'm an entrepreneur and investor in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm obsessed with the mindset of success and the psychology

of performance. I've read hundreds of books, conducted countless hours of research and study,

and I'm going to take you on a journey into the human mind and what makes peak performers tick,

with a focus on always having our discussions rooted in psychological research and scientific fact,

not opinion. In this episode, we discuss the incredible

power of kindness. Show how kindness triggers the helpers high and causes dopamine and

oxytocin to flow through your brain. Look at study data from 136 countries showing the

science behind why kindness is so powerful. We walk through several concrete examples you can use right now to take

action to be kind to someone today, and much more with John Wang. The science of success continues to grow

with more than 685,000 downloads, listeners in over 100 countries hitting number one new and

noteworthy and more. A lot of our listeners are curious about how to organize

and remember all the information that we talk about on the show i get tons of listener emails

ask me matt how do you keep track of all this incredible knowledge that you get from reading

hundreds of books interviewing amazing experts listening to podcasts and more because of that

i've created an awesome resource for you it's's called How to Organize and Remember Everything.

You can get it completely for free. All you have to do is text the word smarter. That's S-M-A-R-T-E-R to the number 4-4-2-2-2. It's a guide, again, we created called How to Organize and Remember Everything. Listeners love it. I get emails all the time from people telling me how great it is and how it's help them organize all the incredible information they get from this show and all the other things in their lives that they're used to improve themselves. Again, you can get it completely for free. All you have to do is to text the word smarter. That's S-M-A-R-T-R to the number 4-4-2-2 or go to scienceof-success.co, that's scienceofsuccess.co, and put in your email.

In our previous episode, we discussed the errors people make in their reasoning and how to

correct them. We explained a number of statistical principles to help sharpen your thinking

and make you a better decision maker. We looked at why every $1 spent on a scared straight program

creates $400 in additional cost to the criminal justice

system. We talked about the illusion of objectivity, why you should not rely on your intuition,

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