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One of the best ways to rude-proof yourself is to deliberately look for something familiar or similar in every person you encounter. “Maybe it's something about the clothes they're wearing; maybe it’s their stance or gestures or the sound of their voice,” Simon-Thomas says. She challenges you to ask yourself: “Is there a way to think, ‘That’s something that happens for me, too,’ or ‘I can relate,’ or ‘I admire that’?”
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The answer is probably yes. “My hypothesis is that you could look at any person at any moment and find some shared humanity or similarity,” she says. “When we see that, we feel more empathetic, more affiliative, and just inclined to assume that good intention.” All of a sudden, it’s not so hard to be nice—even to people who seem like they inhabit a totally different world.
Prosocial behavior, or doing kind acts that benefit others, helps everyone involved feel good. Volunteering time or donating money are research-backed strategies, but there are lots of ways to give back, says Lara Aknin, a distinguished professor of social psychology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, who runs the university’s helping and happiness lab. “People donate blood, people donate organs, people give advice to other people, we cook for other people,” she says. “All of those are really fascinating, meaningful, frequent, and consequential ways that we help.”