KindSight 101

#43 Five Reasons Kindness is Hard and How to Make it Easy (with Houston Kraft)

Episode Summary

Kindness should be easy, right? Wrong! Acting in genuine kindness is one of the hardest things we can do. It turns our there are five reasons that prevent us from being kind. Once we understand what stops kindness, we can learn and teach our way to making kindness normal again.

Episode Notes

Kindness should be easy, right? Wrong! Kindness, the act of sitting alongside someone in empathy and putting ourselves in their shoes through compassion is one of the hardest things we can do. As a result, people are nice, but they don't always act in kindness. It turns our there are five reasons that prevent us from being kind. Once we understand what stops kindness, we can learn and teach our way to making kindness normal again. Join me during this uplifting conversation as we dig into key strategies for unlocking kindness in our students. You'll hear heartwarming stories of kindness and you'll be moved to take action within your school, workplace, and community.

Learn more about Houston Kraft through social media and online by visiting @characterstrong and https://www.houstonkraft.com/characterstrong/ or chooselove.org