The Top Lesson You Can Learn from a Kindergartner
The Timeless Principle of Kindness
This is one in a series of essays that was originally conceived as a book for print publication. If you enjoy it and would like to read more from the collection, you can find a sort of Table of Contents here.
It almost seems insulting to be talking about being kind. As if we need reminders to be kind to each other?
What? Are we in kindergarten still?
It sure seems that way sometimes doesn’t it?
Go ahead and try to drive from home to the office and back and count how many times you’re cut off, glared at, flipped off or worse.
Then count how many times you do the same thing to other drivers.
You see, regardless of what we’ve been taught from infancy on about being kind to people, giving someone their preference, yielding to their point of view, or even taking turns, as we grow up it’s continuously pounded into our psyche that all of that stuff makes us weak losers who will never succeed at anything.
The other day I was walking into an office building with my laptop case in one hand and a large coffee in the other. A well-dressed professional business woman probably a year or two younger than me was walking up to the same door…
