Why Being Early Changes EVERYTHING (Good Samaritan Study)

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]People who were 10 minutes early and 10 minutes late was a 6x [music] difference in who stopped to actually help the person. There was a study they did at Princeton grad school. It was called like the good good Samaritan study where they had seminary students who saw themselves as moral [music] people, right? They were studying to become priests. And they asked them to write a paper on being a good Samaritan and then to [music] present it. All right? And so what was interesting about this is that in the study they separated them into three groups. And so on the way to give the presentation, there was this very narrow hallway into the auditorium.

[00:00:33]>> [music] >> And in the narrow hallway, they put someone who had fallen and clearly needed help. Group one was people who were 10 minutes late.

[00:00:40]>> [music] >> Group two was people who were on time.

[00:00:43]And group three was people who were early. All right? Now, guess what correlation how people rated [music] themselves in their essay had to do with the likelihood that they would stop and help the person.

[00:00:55]You're right. [ __ ] zero. All right?

[00:00:58]You know what did have the highest correlation with the likelihood that they stopped and helped the person?

[00:01:02]>> [music] >> How late they were. And so and let me tell you how big of a difference it was.

[00:01:06]The difference between the people who were 10 minutes early and 10 minutes late was a 6x difference in who [music] stopped to actually help the person. And the reason I see this is so important is that right now, there are opportunities that come to you right now that you cannot even recognize >> [music] >> because you do not have capacity to do anything about it.

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