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Rewarding Kindness with Jimmy Darts

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

The Biology of Kindness

There's a chemical in our body that I know you've heard of called oxytocin. Dopamine is responsible for the feeling we get when we start counting the likes on our videos. The more oxytocin you have in your body, the more generous you become. It's actually the human body's way of trying to get us to look after each other because it's biologically important that a social animal take care of the tribe.

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