Motivational Quote of the Day by Keanu Reeves: “I Don’t Want to Be a Part of a World Where Being Kind Is a Weakness” — What Psychology Says About Why Empathy Is Actual Strength

Motivational Quote of the Day by Keanu Reeves: “I Don’t Want to Be a Part of a World Where Being Kind Is a Weakness” — What Psychology Says About Why Empathy Is Actual Strength

Many of us grew up believing a soft heart is an easy target. Science says otherwise. In experiments published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, researchers Amit Kumar and Nicholas Epley found that people consistently underestimate how much their random acts of kindness lift others. Goodness travels further than we think. That matters at a time when the U.S. Surgeon General has warned of an e…