TJ Power

We've got social media profiles.

We're constantly looking at pictures of ourselves, videos of ourselves, our own name.

It's very self-focused in comparison to what humanity was a long time ago.

But even if you go back 50 years, there was more of a community type focus.

And when you look in family environments, the West has become pretty isolated in terms of family-based contribution to our parents and elders and stuff like that in comparison to the East.

And we all know, like when you do something nice for another human, it just feels good.

And that's just useful, the fact that that's a reality.

It doesn't mean contribute to others just to make yourself feel good.

It's very useful that doing something kind for another human helps.

And you can think about this in loads of minor scenarios.

Like even this morning, I got home from my walk and I,

I live on like a street in a town and there were a number of there were like four of the bins from the different apartments here where I live.

And it's not my duty to take all those bins into everyone's houses.

I could leave them on the road.

It's not I don't have a responsibility to do that.

But in my brain, I then look at the bins.

I think that's contribution that helped them out.

And I don't do it just for me.

But I also know in my brain that will have built oxytocin that makes me feel more connected, more like I'm contributing.

And consciously thinking, am I contributing?