Sally Kohn: Not all of our attempts to serve others go well. Sometimes they just reinforce some of the discrimination that many marginalized groups are facing. She says service is not about yourself and what you need, it's about other people and showing up for them. "The best way to spend money to feel good yourself is to spend it on other people," she says.
Following 9/11, Simran Jeet Singh's Sikh family in Texas was subjected to extreme racist abuse. And yet, Simran's father chose to look on the bright side and offer thanks instead for the acts of kindness friends and neighbors showed them. How was such optimism possible?
Simran - author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life - explains how practicing positive habits and living by our values as often as we can will really help when a crisis arises.
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