Mike Rubin, MD, PhD, CFA

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time…

I generally try to find something trenchant and additive to comment on, yet hard to enhance this video and commentary 🙏

So we are super curious to know what ever happened to…

…jumping up and down for joy? 🥹

Like, we used to do that when we were kids and then somehow

Abandoned the practice altogether, as if it no longer worked

Except

It does still work!

✅ Attitude follows physiology.
✅ Joy follows physiology.
✅ Gratitude follows physiology.

It goes both ways:

We jump up and down when we are full of joy.

Yet

We also are full of joy when we jump up and down.

Not sure who we have to ask for permission to skip, hop, jump, and dance 🕺

But let’s just go under the assumption

That permission is granted!! 🐶

It’s an amazing instinct that we all have within us that is worth harnessing…

…that is:

The instinct to accept.

It doesn’t require deep thought or exceptional knowledge

It’s just an understanding that we lead with:

✅ Understanding
✅ Compassion
✅ kindness

and only then do we embark in further interaction.

We place our shared humanity (and in the case of canines, our shared sense of being)

Ahead of any agenda

And then what happens is:

1️⃣ We have more profound connections in our life

and

2️⃣ We achieve so much more

In a transactional world that seems to evolve at ever increasing speed

Slowing done to acknowledge the primacy of our shared humanity and existence

Is actually the fastest way to fulfillment and success 🙏 🏆

So, here’s the interesting thing:

We talk a lot about potential and what we are capable of

Yet

The real question is how do we unlock it.

We are deluged with examples of people doing extraordinary things

And

There could be a propensity for us to dissociated ourselves and our abilities with those feats.

However

We all have unique talents and gifts that live latently within us

And

When we traverse the portal of belief

And allow ourselves the latitude to try and fail and get back up again

We realize that over time we can…

Materialize the infinite from the invisible.

One of the most beautiful elements of life is that…

…there are so many wonderful people (or canines) that walk besides us.

At times we may feel like we are meandering alone

yet

Unbeknownst to us so many others are either on our journey together or can relate to our journey.

When we allow the generosity, care, and kindness in

and

Practice the law of reciprocity

Demonstrating this generosity, care, and kindness to others:

Problems become mere challenges

and together

Challenges become opportunities.

One of the things that we notice when we think about it carefully is that:

Cycles are the way of the world.

Like the waves in the ocean that undulate with the tides

✅ We rise and we slumber

✅ We win and we falter

✅ We celebrate and we console

Life teaches us that there are counterweights to everything,

and what may be rolling down hill today

May hit a crevice tomorrow.

And rather than bemoan the vicissitudes of life

All we need to do is remind ourselves

That perpetual motion and change will assuredly

Bounce the ball

Back up ⬆️ again ☀️

This is a video that is really worth pondering and absorbing because

It is not concocted or AI generated

It is a reflection of a real consequence of kindness

That is actually a principle that few of us truly
Realize

Which is that

✅ Kindness
✅ Compassion
✅ Generosity

Are actually competitive advantages

And

We are far more likely to achieve real world success

In situation where other people are involved

(Which is most situations)

Because people hold these virtues in such high esteem

That peers are heavily inclined to

🙌 Elevate
🙌 Favor
🙌 Reward

Those who live by these values of our shared humanity.

🏆 Here we exhibit the true definition of winning both in life and in the task at hand.