Receiving Kindness Is Harder Than Giving Kindness | Simon Sinek

Kindness being received is a more emotionally overwhelming experience than kindness being given. Kindness being given. We talk about, it's good to be kind, it's nice to be kind. But how many of us are actually adept at receiving kindness? I think some of us are embarrassed by it. Some of us don't know how to react to it. And what I'm processing is one of the acts of kindness is to receive kindness. When somebody gives you a gift and you say, no, no, no, and they say, but I bought this for you, and you say, no, no, no. It becomes rude to reject the gift at some point, and at the end of the day, to simply say, thank you, thank you makes the other person feel good. So even if you're uncomfortable by the compliment, the gift, the act of kindness, the act of warmth, the act of generosity, there's a great act of kindness in the reception of kindness as well. Because what kindness is, is community. It's the forming, it's the foundation of community. And so we have to remember community is both ways. I define community as a group of people who agree to grow together. And so if we agree to grow together, that means kindness must beget. Kindness must beget kindness. And this is where trust comes.