A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, via neuroscience and wonderful stories from their clinical practice, why focusing on others, and pitching into the world in general, is a secret superpower.
You may have heard that teaching someone else strengthens your own knowledge, or that the first-born child in a family often has a higher IQ than the younger ones, because they've taken time to figure out how to transmit what they know to their siblings. Part of it is that figuring out how to explain something clarifies thinking, but part of it is the power of understanding how another person learns. In other words: getting outside our own heads, outside the swirl of self-concern that dominates most people's mental chatter, is, ironically, one of the best things we can do for ourselves. Thinking of others feels good.
"Humans are happiest when in motion, surrounded by others. This book illuminates the many reasons to look beyond yourself and find meaning and connection through serving others. A must-read."
Scott Galloway, New York Times bestselling author and serial entrepreneur
