Rainn Wilson

You know, whenever I'm,

at my worst, I'm not in compassion.

I'm like, oh, that, screw him.

Oh, that's, that's bull, what?

You know, like, can be judgmental and like, oh, those idiots, why didn't they do that?

And they should just do, you know, and, but when I'm able to increase my compassion, say, ah, we're all in this human struggle together.

Oh, those poor people, like,

Like imagine just how much an increase of compassion could help us as a species move forward on the planet to just maximize, like we're talking like Jesus like compassion or Buddha like compassion.

It could be powerful for us.

In fact, I have a little scenario in there.

I was like, what if humanity could invent a compassion machine?

So picture like an MRI machine or something where you put electrodes on your scalp or whatever it is.

I don't know what it looks like, but then you're able to connect with someone on the other side of the world.

He's a goat herder in Yemen, or it's a, you know, someone plowing a field in Pakistan or whatever it is, someone completely different than you.

And in this compassion machine, you're able to see and feel the world through their eyes and through their heart.

Like

Imagine if we were actively every day, everyone spent half an hour in a compassion machine, and we had just a much deeper understanding of the difficulties of what it's like to be a goat herder in Yemen or a farmer in Pakistan.

But these are some of the spiritual tools that lie in the world's faith traditions that can be transformative for us as a species on the planet.

So

My five-year-old lesson, these two TV shows kind of show us the way forward.