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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Do You Differentiate Between Kindness and Survival?

i think a lot of who we are is due to our mammalian evolution, and is universal. But then culture comes in and has this unique language that's a very sign part of how we express ourselves. So i do think that it is this sense of part of us is shared, and then culture adds, it's its nuances,. inforned to be good. You have an interesting play on darwin. Instead of saying survival the fittest, you say survival of the kindest. How do you differentiate between the sort of kindness we display to those inner groups and the more generalsort of kindness we hope to display to strangers we might have nothing in common with? Well, this is

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