jason mejia’s blog has a lot of great posts on building your happiness and helping others. This one on building your self-awareness might be my favorite.
This is a story about a man who, as a young kid, was a member of the group “All in the Mind.” He was caught in a vicious circle of violence and got caught in the same one-sided circle of violence as the others. The group was so far from their original values, they didn’t even get to watch the film, and by that point, they were in the middle of a fight.