Dan Harris

And, like, as I also often say, if you were an alien and you landed on this planet and went to a gym, it would look really weird that people are running in place for 45 minutes or picking heavy shit up and putting it back down.

But why are they doing that?

Because we know that the cardiovascular system and the musculoskeletal

muscular skeletal system can be trained.

Well, the same is true for the brain and the mind.

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.