How to see the humanity in everyone and treat people with dignity
How do you condense the essentials of being a good human into a few hundred words? It’s a lot harder to quantify kindness than to explain how to change a tire. It’s also more important.
For me, the basics of being a “good human” boil down to this: see the humanity in everyone and treat everyone with dignity. That includes yourself. Love yourself, love your neighbor.
First, human connection is not just important — it’s critical. Neuroscience research is finding that we are literally hard-wired to connect with others. For example, mirror neurons, only identified in the early 1990s, are neurons that fire in our brains when we see someone else perform an action the same way they would if we performed the action ourselves. A simple example is the urge to yawn when we see someone else yawn, or smile when they smile. Mirror neurons help us connect to each other, and they most definitely help us have empathy. We simply cannot get through this life without others.
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