Sublime

In many East Asian countries the name Kuan Yin, the revered

Compassion is predicated on the idea that all conscious beings are intrinsically worthy of humane treatment.

A generative person gives others the gift of admiration—seeing them for the precious creatures they are. She gives the gift of patience—understanding that people are always developing. He gives them the gift of presence. I know a man who suffered a public disgrace. In the aftermath, one of his friends took him out to dinner every Sunday night for t

Studies show that teaching traits like kindness, compassion, and empathy, in an explicit and intentional way at a young age, can make a difference. A 2011 meta-analysis of social-emotional learning, which many US curricula have embraced in recent decades, suggested that it led to higher graduation rates and safer sex, even eighteen years later.

Research by Dacher Keltner at the University of California, Berkeley, and others has shown that those with lower status are keener perspective-takers.

wanting to be optimally kind instead of just kind,

believing you harbor no such animus. These hidden biases can be detected via clever tests. For example, a person may say he has no racial prejudice, yet when presented with a reaction time test in which words that have pleasant or unpleasant connotations are paired with the words black or white, words with pleasant meaning are more quickly paired w

Angela Duckworth, renowned for many things including introducing the character strength “grit” into the public discourse.