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A 12-step experiment designed to open our hearts, eyes, and minds.
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Can I Help You?
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Open Your Eyes
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Switch It Up
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up
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Forgive & Forget
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Face Yourself
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Kill Them With Kindness
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Walk a Mile In Their Shoes
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Go Big or Go Home
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Pay It Forward
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Wear a Smile
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Dive Deep
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Can I Help You?
Can we gain any empathy or perspective by talking to strangers with different situations? We asked New Yorkers one very simple question: “How can we help you?”
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Open Your Eyes
Bystander apathy is a phenomenon. We hung missing people signs all over NYC and sat next to them for an entire day. Did anyone notice? What if we did the same thing with a dog?
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Switch It Up
There are always people who bother us and situations we try to avoid due to our selfishness. What if we had to do their job? Could we be kinder to them in the future?
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up
We all beat ourselves up for the way we've handled things in the past. We tried to forgive ourselves for these experiences by opening up about them.
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Forgive & Forget
We faced someone who hurt us in the past. Can we let go of the pain or misunderstanding we have toward them? Can we gain any compassion or empathy by confronting them?
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Face Yourself
Everyone has their own kinds of fears and insecurities, and we often hide behind them by judging others. We took a major personal insecurity of ours and faced it head on.
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Kill Them With Kindness
They say the ultimate act of compassion is to learn to love your enemies. We tried to better understand someone we don’t get along with by doing something nice for them.
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Walk a Mile In Their Shoes
It’s easy to judge lifestyle decisions that we don’t like or that we don't understand. We participated in the lifestyles of others as a way to learn more about them and their decisions.
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Go Big or Go Home
Why do we always seem to neglect the people who we are closest to? We picked one special person in our lives who we constantly neglect and did something nice for them.
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Pay It Forward
We left wallets all over NYC with money and a note asking that the recipient do one kind thing with it. We also performed random acts of kindness on the streets.
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Wear a Smile
For eight hours straight we walked around NYC and smiled at every person we came across. Could we make them smile? Could we bring a moment of happiness to their life?
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Dive Deep
For this last step we're going to dive deep into what we've learned and try to do something much larger than ourselves. We’ll open this platform to start a dialogue.