07/12/2025
Day seven. Kindness is contagious, it’s free, it makes you smile and feel warm and fuzzy and it does the same to others!
Research shows that compliments have mood-lifting effects on you, they improve your well-being but this works both ways to receivers and compliment givers. And once you start giving them the giver and receiver are more likely to give more. Creating a feel good ripple of kindness and compassion.
Neuroscientists have shown that verbal affirmations light up the same areas of the brain as a monetary reward does.
How many compliments can you give today?
Source: Why a Simple Act of Kindness Is Not as Simple as It Seems: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Our Compliments
Erica J. Boothby and Vanessa K. Bohns (2020)
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