Amit Kumar
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301 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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But of course, it turned out that it was her who had kind of made this miracle happen.
She had been coming into the office, at least with a little bit of frequency.
And this was, again, something she didn't have to do.
Nobody asked her to do this.
In fact, when I talked to her about this is another kind of real life experience of what we're measuring in these experiments, because when I talked to her about it, she basically framed it as
this super concrete, simple act.
You know, it's just pouring water out of a container every once in a while is kind of how she described what she was doing.
But to me, when you're already anxious about returning to the office, you think that your plants have died.
This was somebody that was thinking about me, somebody that cared about me, somebody that was doing something nice for me.
And so all of those positive feelings, I think, really came to mind in that instance, even though she, of course, thought of it as some small thing that she was doing to kind of pass the time.
So this goes back to sort of this asymmetry in terms of what are people focusing on?
What are people paying attention to in these interactions?
So when we're a potential performer of an act of kindness, our perspective just tends to focus less on warmth than targets do when we're considering our own behavior.
It seems like a plant watering a plant to a performer, but it's actually somebody doing something nice for me when you're a recipient.
So it turns out that these acts are pretty easy.
They don't necessarily involve lots of effort.
They're the types of things that you can do in just a matter of minutes.
Folks have been making the case for about two decades now that expressing gratitude improves well-being.
And yet again, we don't necessarily walk around in our daily lives
giving thanks to people all that often.
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