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Archive for April 17, 2011
Smile Newsletter: Confronting Road Rage With Compassion
April 17, 2011
“Two years ago, on the day before Easter, I gave my three children money instead of Easter baskets. Later that evening, we were all sat watching television, when an infomercial came on about starving children. I couldn’t help tearing up when my children said, “Mom, can we give our Easter money to these children?” I said “yes” and told them that God was going to bless them for this. I wrote a cheque and sent it off in the mail. I wanted to go get them Easter baskets for their kind act, but I didn’t have any more money. To my surprise, on Easter morning, a couple of ladies from a church we used to attend came over with a big box. I didn’t open it until they left, and when I did, tears started streaming down my and I fell to the floor with gratitude. It contained Easter baskets for my children and a gas card for my family. The universe sometimes knocks you on your knees in tears from the way it works…” — god4me
Bell Curve of Empathy
April 17, 2011It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. — W. C. Fields
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Good News of the Day:
Rhesus monkeys can be trained to pull a chain to obtain food but will refuse to do so if this means another monkey receives an electric shock. How do those monkeys compare with Nazi concentration camp guards? It was childhood tales of Nazi atrocities that first set the Cambridge psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen, on the path of studying human cruelty and empathy. Instead of “evil”, Simon frames such acts as “empathy erosion” in his book, Zero Degrees of Empathy. Unempathic acts are simply the tail end of a bell curve, found in every population on the planet, and thus, any problem immersed in empathy becomes solvable. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4561
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Be The Change:
Take the empathy test and figure out what is your EQ — Empathy Quotient. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4561a
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