Kind people give freely without expecting anything back, while nice people give hoping for praise or reciprocity in return. When you're attached to a specific outcome and feel hurt if you don't get it, that's a sign you're being nice, not kind. Real kindness, the speaker argues, is what actually draws people to you.
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Kind is somebody that just gives because whoever wants to receive this can receive it. If you don't receive it, that's okay. I'm giving because it feels good to be— I'm giving just because. That's kind. A kind person is an attractive person. A nice person is I give with the expectation of receiving. So it's I will subconsciously manipulate you by being nice to you. And if you see that I'm being nice to you, you're going to be nice to me. And I want you to be nice to me because you being nice to me makes me feel good about myself. And giving isn't a bad thing if you're giving from a place of abundance and you're not attached at all to who receives it versus giving because I want to get. A lot of people give to then get. And if they don't get what they want, and that's how you'll know whether you're attached, by the way. If you were to give something away and you weren't to get the response you wanted, does that bring up something in you? Because if it does, there's an attachment.