The power of being soft in a sharp, pointy world

Why choosing kindness in a hard, exhausting world isn’t weakness. It’s radical strength, and the key to living with purpose, resilience, and defiance.

Hi,

“Kindness is soft, and soft is weak.”

That’s the story we’ve been told since we were kids. If you want to survive in this world, you have to be tough. You have to cut before you get cut. You have to hustle harder, outwork everyone, and grind your bones into dust just to get noticed.

It’s exhausting.

I tried living that way, and it hollowed me out. It m…