Kindness is peak human performance and high status.
Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy.
Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
- Marcus Aurelius
(art: Mary Bradish Titcomb: Morning Coffee)
very hard to have FOMO if you understand the importance of your current season. it’s been my biggest lesson this year. be where your feet are. there’s a reason for this current placement, this current happening. observe it and respond. if you look elsewhere, you’ll waste it.