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The Case for Kindness

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In a recent commencement speech which quickly went viral, fiction writer George Saunders said one of his biggest regrets was not being kinder to a shy girl in his grade school. How do you define kindness? If there were times in your life when you wish you were kinder, what got in your way?

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Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology and co-founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and author of books including "Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life"

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