Seth's Blog : Generosity and fear

When we give away goodness from our surplus, we grow our internal abundance.

What if you: Gave 5x what you are comfortable with to someone? Abandoned the idea of an inheritance or lower your goal of retirement savings by 10% and instead invest that money in people, causes, and learning in ways that might lead to interesting results? Help pay a bill in someone’s life that might be having a hard time? Give money directly to p

Lead with generosity. Generosity creates trust. Trust creates productivity.

money is how our society signifies enrollment. The person who has paid for your scarce time and scarce output is more likely to value it, to share it, and to take it seriously. Generous doesn’t require us to reduce friction by making things free. It requires us to bring bravery and passion and empathy to the people we seek to serve. And that often

Generosity in terms of free work, constant discounts, and plenty of uncompensated overtime isn’t really generous. Because you can’t sustain it. Because soon you’ll be breaking the promises you made. On the other hand, showing generosity with your bravery, your empathy, and your respect is generous indeed. What your customers want from you is for yo