Random acts of kindness make the person performing the kind act happier when they’re grouped together within a shorter time period.
Experimental psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky found in her happiness research that doing something for other people five times in one single day makes you happier than if you spread out those five acts over a whole week.
So, when you hold a door open for someone, help an elderly over the street, give a lost tourist directions, hand the contents of your lunch box to a vagrant, or any other kind act, do it all within a short period, rather than spread it out over time.
Lyubomirsky found that because we perform acts of kindness naturally, it seems to please us more when we’re more conscious of it.
