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#375 BITESIZE | Why Kindness is the Superpower You Didn’t Know You Had | Claudia Hammond
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
The Brain's Reward System for Kindness
I'm really fascinated by you on that. I think we can practice and develop and become kinder. So it is something we can and we can develop more empathy for people. But I think we already have the predisposition to do that. And if you look at how the brain's reward system works when it comes to kind acts and altruism, we can see that the brain rewards us when we are kind. We've evolved to have that reward system that makes us feel good when we're kind because being kind is so useful to survival. Relationships help people survive. Yeah.
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