Brain Food #422
Thinking about everyone else
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
I read this on the Feld blog a few days ago, and something stood out to me which I wanted to share:
“I talked to a new friend from Seoul yesterday and asked how he personally navigated through things. He said that he shifted from “thinking about himself to thinking about everyone else.” Whenever he thought about himself, he just got anxious and stressed. When he thought about everyone else, it motivated him to take action.”
Through all this, we are hopefully learning to be selfless again, to care for each other again. We have stopped spending our money to buy time to do more things, but spend it to buy the basics to live. We have stopped thinking our time matters more than the time of others. What has motivated humans, always, was the capacity to care for someone else, and we have so much of it, still.