Kindness: The Win-Win Superpower – Jamil Zaki, Ph.D. & Leon Logothetis : 888
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE...
… the conversation centers on what kindness is, how to practice it, and why it matters. Kindness is a powerful tool – it helps people feel less alone and truly makes the world a more joyful and tolerant place. The two insightful guests you’ll hear from in this episode – Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., and Leon Logothetis – will leave you feeling lighter, more optimistic and, well, kinder!
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D., uses tools from psychology and neuroscience to help you understand how empathy works. As a professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, he explains how kindness is a learnable skill. You can use it in your life more often.
Jamil’s kindness research includes empathy and compassion to form a triad. “Kindness is a behavior that benefits another person,” he explains. Scientists view empathy like a big umbrella term for emotional connection and then compassion as one of the components of emotional connectedness to others.
You can dive into more of his research in his book, “The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World.”
Leon Logothetis invites you to join the kindness rebellion. He’s certain you’ll find wealth in health and happiness, success in inner peace and a definite cool factor in being kind.
Leon’s a motivational speaker, adventurer and philanthropist known as the “The Kindness Guy.” His travels take him all over the world looking for and spreading kindness (binge watch both seasons of “The Kindness Diaries”). He speaks to children and adults at schools and companies about the importance of being kind in the world. Empathy and compassion have a lot to do with that.
Check out his latest book: “Go Be Kind-A Life-Changing Little Journal: 28½ Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier,” to find out how you can get in on the kindness movement.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.7 | Maybe love is what the world needs. |
| 0:13.5 | In fact, the world could always use some more love, but there's something else, and it's |
| 0:16.9 | called kindness. |
| 0:19.1 | Our first guest on the show today is Jamil Zaki, who researches kindness, empathy, and |
| 0:24.2 | compassion, which are actually three different things, and he looks at it from a psychology |
| 0:28.4 | perspective and as a neuroscientist. |
| 0:31.4 | He looks at what isolation, tribalism does to us, and why we find it hard to understand |
| 0:37.4 | people who aren't like us. |
| 0:39.4 | And if you talk about isolation right now, we have social isolation going on, which is |
| 0:44.4 | what's happening, especially to kids, but to everyone when our faces are covered, and |
| 0:49.0 | we have to stay far away from other people, and we can't get together and do the things |
| 0:52.0 | that we always do. |
| 0:53.2 | At the same time, we have obscene amounts of tribalism. |
| 0:56.3 | The us versus them more than it's ever been. |
| 0:59.7 | Dr. Zaki's research looks at how you can learn to empathize more effectively by tapping |
| 1:05.3 | into common humanity and common vulnerability, which is something that can bring someone |
| 1:10.0 | from the other side, at least into the middle. |
| 1:11.9 | And I would encourage you, there is no other side. |
| 1:13.7 | Just be right in the middle and become, and if you do that, it's easier to be kind. |
| 1:18.6 | And our second guest on the show today is Leon Logothetus. |
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