act of kindness acts of generosity is how simple it is to make people feel good I was walking down the streets of New York City and a guy walking in front of me his backpack opened and a bunch of paper fell out on the on the street I didn't think much of it I bent town I gathered up the papers handed them back to him and pointed out that his his bag had opened now in our bodies as a chemical called oxytocin oxytocin is responsible for all the warm and fuzzies unicorns and rainbows it's responsible
for all the warm feelings and connectedness we have with each other friendship love huge amounts of oxytocin surged through a woman's body as she gives birth this is what is responsible for the mother-child bond oxytocin binds human beings there are many ways to get oxytocin one of them is acts of kindness and acts of generosity it feels good when we do something nice for someone it feels good when someone does something nice for us on this particular day I did something for someone with no expectation of anything in return I got a little surge of
oxytocin I felt good he turned to me he said thank you it feels nice when someone does something for us with no expectation of anything in return he felt good I walked to the end of the street I'm waiting to cross the street and a total stranger who happened to be standing next to me said I saw what you did back there that was really cool as it turns out witnessing an act of generosity releases oxytocin and he felt good and the best part about oxytocin is the more oxytocin we have in our bodies the
more generous we become it is Mother Nature's Way of trying desperately to get us to look after each other I can guarantee you that that man who witnessed what I did did something nice for somebody that day simply because he saw someone do something nice for somebody that day so what if we commit to do something nice for someone with no expectation of anything in return imagine what happens at work imagine what happens at home imagine what happens with our friends but it must be genuine [Music]
