Welcome to the Uber Experience Town Hall. Here you can post your story as an Uber driver. And as a rider. What new experience did it bring today? This week? Why do you love it? What impressed you the most about your driver day? About your customers? Make it positive. Every month we will draw prizes. If you post and contribute, you might well win some good pocket change (see rules).Be Positive, Spread positivity!
Dear Reader:
I am a professor in social sciences (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). I have long been a curious observer of people’s helping habits. If they see a person needing a little help, many people will just walk by; while a few will sprint to help that person (and I am not talking the constantly badgering panhandlers on the city street; I am talking average people who just happen to need a helping hand at the moment.) For years, I have been the first type—“Self-focused.” Every once in a while, I surprise myself by being different—in a random moment of kindness. This happened to me the other day.
A few weeks ago, I walked by an old lady who was baffled by her car alarm going off. For a moment I said to myself, “I need to keep walking to reach my destination of the moment” (Self-focused). But then, instead, I decided to help her anyway. And I felt GOOD.
That made me think this: We all face such moments, often. Often our instinct is to NOT stray from our task of the moment and keep focusing on ourselves. However, a good person lives in all of us and if we pay attention, maybe we will heed that inner voice and make a contribution to another person’s life—another person BEYOND our immediate family member or friend.
I am sure you have experienced such moments. I invite you to share them with the world. Let your Good Deed Story nudge others to engage in their own “good deed.”
And then I thought what if everyone of us could in turn motivate five other people.
So, I started this 5-Pledge Challenge Drive.
- Post your own “good deed.” Don’t have one yet? No problem. For now, just "pledge it" and then post it within 5 or 25 days. (See Guidelines)
- Next, motivate five more of your friends to engage in a similar “good deed” and pledge their names. (You can pledge 0, 1 or 2 first and then return to pledge more). Then follow them up to keep their motivation alive. (Click on the Five-Pledge Challenge button).
If you join this project, we can together spread this to one million+ “do-gooders.” Yes, it sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it is for a good cause. It brings happiness to the person we do good to, but it also brings the do-gooders a new kind of happiness. Especially to those who might become first-time-do-gooders. Together, let us create a million+ fist-time (or repeat) do-gooders. See how the TREE of Good Deeds can grow.
You can stay back and watch from the sidelines. Or you can harness your optimism and enthusiasm and join this noble project. And let us together harness the power of the Web to spread this around the world, across age, gender, income, education, occupation, political, and cultural groups. I welcome you to join this amazing project.
Sincerely,
Ban Mittal, Ph.D.
Social Science Researcher, Professor, Author, Listener
www.BanMittal.com
Dear Reader:
I am a professor in social sciences (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). I have long been a curious observer of people’s helping habits. If they see a person needing a little help, many people will just walk by; while a few will sprint to help that person (and I am not talking the constantly badgering panhandlers on the city street; I am talking average people who just happen to need a helping hand at the moment.) For years, I have been the first type—“Self-focused.” Every once in a while, I surprise myself by being different—in a random moment of kindness. This happened to me the other day.
A few weeks ago, I walked by an old lady who was baffled by her car alarm going off. For a moment I said to myself, “I need to keep walking to reach my destination of the moment” (Self-focused). But then, instead, I decided to help her anyway. And I felt GOOD.
That made me think this: We all face such moments, often. Often our instinct is to NOT stray from our task of the moment and keep focusing on ourselves. However, a good person lives in all of us and if we pay attention, maybe we will heed that inner voice and make a contribution to another person’s life—another person BEYOND our immediate family member or friend.
I am sure you have experienced such moments. I invite you to share them with the world. Let your Good Deed Story nudge others to engage in their own “good deed.”
And then I thought what if everyone of us could in turn motivate five other people.
So, I started this 5-Pledge Challenge Drive.
- Post your own “good deed.” Don’t have one yet? No problem. For now, just "pledge it" and then post it within 5 or 25 days. (See Guidelines)
- Next, motivate five more of your friends to engage in a similar “good deed” and pledge their names. (You can pledge 0, 1 or 2 first and then return to pledge more). Then follow them up to keep their motivation alive. (Click on the Five-Pledge Challenge button).
If you join this project, we can together spread this to one million+ “do-gooders.” Yes, it sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it is for a good cause. It brings happiness to the person we do good to, but it also brings the do-gooders a new kind of happiness. Especially to those who might become first-time-do-gooders. Together, let us create a million+ fist-time (or repeat) do-gooders. See how the TREE of Good Deeds can grow.
You can stay back and watch from the sidelines. Or you can harness your optimism and enthusiasm and join this noble project. And let us together harness the power of the Web to spread this around the world, across age, gender, income, education, occupation, political, and cultural groups. I welcome you to join this amazing project.
Sincerely,
Ban Mittal, Ph.D.
Social Science Researcher, Professor, Author, Listener
www.BanMittal.com
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