Today we're going to be focusing on the topic of self-compassion. So Dad, to kind of frame the conversation, why is self-compassion important and why should I care about it?

Right, because it's hard actually for many, many people to bring a quality of self-compassion to themselves,

even though research shows that it's really helpful.

So compassion, if you give it, calms the body and lowers stress.

And if you receive compassion from others that builds up your sense of worth and your ability to bounce back from setbacks and difficulties.

Well, if you give yourself self-compassion, you get both of those benefits of giving and receiving.

That's pretty good.

Actually, self-compassion is very foundational for people to cope and succeed.

People who are more self-compassionate are, for example, more willing to take risks in business.

They tend to be more successful over the long

whole because they're more willing to risk failure. Because if they fail they

figure well bummer drag I'm going to do the best I can to do better next time but

they don't keep beating themselves up about it so that there's a huge cost in failure.

Because the cost of failing in an emotional sense is lower with self-compassion,

people are more willing to take appropriate risks in their lives.

You can take a big swing.

Yeah.

Because you're not as worried about striking out or you're not worried about something really horrible happening.

So how is that kind of distinct from just being on your own side,

which we talked about last time?

Yeah, I've thought about that a lot, and what is the difference between the two?

And for me, being on your own side has this kind of muscular primal

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