Dan Harris

And so our innate capacity for warmth, for compassion, these are just skills that can be trained through practices.

And then I think it's not...

Then I think the real training is in your life.

Like when somebody you love or several people you love get dementia simultaneously or, you know, my case, my wife's had many serious health problems.

So I've done many, many trips to the hospital.

So you just, that's like...

You're either gonna let that shut you down or you're gonna like rip your pirate shirt off on the prow of the boat and like go for it.

Yeah.

I know you probably have something to say, but just to pick up on that, you talk about the banality of evil.

Well, there's a humdrumness of love, too.

It doesn't... Joseph Goldstein often says that there's no hierarchy of compassionate action.

It's more newsworthy if you run into a burning building and bring out a kitten, but it's pretty cool if you...

text, call your mom or text a friend who's in need or hold the door open for somebody or whatever.

It's such a, and I think I might have said this last night, it's such a

given what a dumpster fire it is right now on the planet, it's a target-rich opportunity for doing good.

And the doing good does you good.

There's a real virtuous spiral available to all of us if we take advantage of it.

That's my question, too.

What do you guys think?

Yeah.