Researchers at UC San Diego and Harvard put strangers in a room and gave them a chance to share money with people they’d never met. When someone received generosity, they didn’t just return the favor — they helped complete strangers in the next round. And those strangers helped other strangers after that.

The pattern reached three degrees out. Your kindness touches people you know, people they know, and people you will never meet. That’s according to a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And you’ll never see it happen. You’ll never get a thank-you. You’ll never know the chain you started. You just have to trust that it moved forward.

What do you think? Have you ever been kind to a stranger and wondered if it mattered at all?

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