Unemployed Man is Hunger Lifeline for Many
For elderly and disabled residents of the Bernal Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, Herman Travis is a lifeline. It is nearly impossible for them to bring the food that they need to their homes, so every Tuesday Herman partners with the San Francisco Food Bank to bring 1,300 pounds of food directly to them. Although Herman is unemployed as of late, he finds great purpose through his selfless acts of service. “It makes me feel good, seeing them smile when I knock on their door. It just makes me feel good,” Herman says humbly. For his neighbors the feelings are even more intense – to them Herman is a “blessing” and they would be “completely lost without him”.
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To call someone a hero means – I’d decide what to do by asking what they’d do in the same situation. That’s a stricter standard than admiration. –Paul Graham
Good News of the Day: Can modern science help us to create heroes? That’s the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project, a new nonprofit started by Phil Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. Heroism isn’t supposed to be a teachable trait. We assume that people like Gandhi or Rosa Parks or the 9/11 hero Todd Beamer have some intangible quality that the rest of us lack. When we get scared and selfish, these brave souls find a way to act, to speak out, to help others in need. That’s why they’re heroes. Zimbardo rejects this view. “We’ve been saddled for too long with this mystical view of heroism,” he says. “A hero is just an ordinary person who does something extraordinary. I believe we can use science to teach people how to do that.” [ more ]
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Make a list of your heroes. Is there a pattern? (It means those are the qualities you’d like to see most in yourself!)
Can modern science help us to create heroes? That’s the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project, a new nonprofit started by Phil Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. Heroism isn’t supposed to be a teachable trait. We assume that people like Gandhi or Rosa Parks or the 9/11 hero Todd Beamer have some intangible quality that the rest of us lack. When we get scared and selfish, these brave souls find a way to act, to speak out, to help others in need. That’s why they’re heroes. Zimbardo rejects this view. “We’ve been saddled for too long with this mystical view of heroism,” he says. “A hero is just an ordinary person who does something extraordinary. I believe we can use science to teach people how to do that.” [ 
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