Here Mr. Tushman looked up at the audience. “Kinder than is necessary,” he repeated.
“What a marvelous line, isn’t it? Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
Why I love that line, that concept, is that it reminds me that we carry with us, as human beings,
not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
And what does that mean? How is that measured? You can’t use a yardstick.
It’s like I was saying just before: it’s not like measuring how much you’ve grown in a year.
It’s not exactly quantifiable, is it? How do we know we’ve been kind? What is being kind, anyway?”
He put on his reading glasses again and started flipping through another small book.
“There’s another passage in a different book I’d like to share with you,” he said. “If you’ll bear with me while I find it... Ah, here we go.
In Under the Eye of the Clock, by Christopher Nolan, the main character is a young man who is facing some extraordinary challenges.
There’s this one part where someone helps him: a kid in his class. On the surface, it’s a small gesture.
But to this young man, whose name is Joseph, it’s... well, if you’ll permit me...”
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