Amit Kumar
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301 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Amit Kumar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's real money on the line.
These are consequential choices.
And what we found was that those who had just been on the receiving end of an act of kindness
gave substantially more to sort of this anonymous person in this subsequent game.
So this other person was now being kind to someone else, basically because someone had been kind to them before.
Yeah, you can think of this as a potential virtuous cycle of sort of giving to other people, but we don't always realize that we have the capacity to create cycles like that.
I wish the story was I reflected on how I had behaved and I changed my behavior right away and called her up on the phone.
But we ended up, you know, there was some shared memory, essentially, that that led to us having a little bit of a text exchange.
We ended up talking to each other as a result of that.
And from that conversation, I knew that it would have been great if we had talked to each other.
It's, you know.
When you're close to someone, those feelings of closeness come back pretty quickly in reality, but sometimes it's hard to realize that when you're thinking about sort of the prospect of reconnecting with somebody else.
I think all of us can probably that have had this experience can remember how strange it is to go back to a place when you haven't been there in many months.
And so there was already some anxiety around going back to the office.
I was nervous about doing that.
I basically didn't go to the office at all for many months during the height of the pandemic.
And when I eventually did come back to campus, I was expecting to kind of find
a half-eaten sandwich from a past life and a bunch of dead plants in my office.
Much to my surprise, though, the plants in my office were not only alive, they were miraculously thriving to the point of looking way healthier than they looked when I was coming in regularly and trying to tend to them.
And it turned out, so there's a person on our administrative staff here who does all sorts of seemingly small things that kind of really loom large, I think, in the minds of those that are receiving her help.
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