
57. The Compassionate Instinct & Bringing Wonder Back to Work with Dacher Keltner
Volunteer Nation
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The Evolution of the Compassionate Instinct
The link between compassion and well-being is more complex than just dopamine. Compassion helps us evolutionarily by taking care of vulnerable beings, in particular vulnerable offspring. It helps the individual because it just is inherently empowering to the body. And there's linkages between compassion, volunteerism, and life expectancy that I could bore you with the neurophysiological pathways of but really readily understood.
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