Neighborhood Interviews

(1) I thought the video was very well thought out and had a lot of good points. First off, I would like to jump straight into my favorite part of the video, which was when Daniel Goleman talked about a story of speed dating, and how a woman’s brother remained single because he only talked about himself when he was doing the speed dating rounds, he never asked anything about the woman he was talking to .I liked it so much because I never fully realized how many people actually do talk about themselves only, when they have the chance. For example, in my national service fraternity, the pledges each semester must conduct 60 interviews with the actives in that fraternity. In all the interviews I have been a part of, mostly all the pledges talk
Sometimes, people in school or in my job send out messages and letters asking for some help, and most of the time I ignore them because I feel I am “too busy” to help. Sometimes I go out to help, but most of the time I don’t go out and help. I admit, I always feel immensely guilty when I just ignore people’s pleas for help. Sometimes, I feel that since “they” didn’t help me when I needed help, I shouldn’t help them, and sometimes I feel that is very selfish of me. I want to work on thinking more about others, and not just about myself. I am usually a very nice person, but I do tend to not think about other people’s problems when they have some. (3) The role I can take in spreading compassion to others is leading by example. I can start to not ignore people and their problems and actually going up to people in public who look like they are in need of help. I can start smiling more and being more kind to strangers and give people smiles as I pass them by. I must admit, I have been trying to be compassionate in the last 3 years, but it is difficult because I am shy and am not use to going up to people and seeing if they need