Back in 96,

in 96, Atlanta was booming with excitement

around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games.

And then, a deranged zealot, willing to kill for a cause,

lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others,

forever, rippling out for generations.

Listen to Flashpoint on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcast.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that kindness cascades.

When you are kind to someone, it's highly likely that that person will be just a little kinder to others too. Those folks might then show more kindness to the other people in their lives.

The kindness keeps rippling down, which is much better than this working in the opposite direction.

So if you've ever been driving through road work that necessitated one lane

merging into another,

you may have noticed an interesting phenomenon.

Now, ideally, this would be a zipper merge sort of situation, but not everyone knows to do that.

So in the normal run of things where one lane of traffic feels like they have

possession of the continuing lane, if you let someone merge in front of you, that person is more likely to let someone else merge in front of them.

And that means you don't wind up with stopped cars in one lane

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