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Les instituted free flat repairs for anyone, customer or not. Competitors called him crazy. Why fix flats for people who bought tires elsewhere? But Les understood reciprocity: humans are biologically wired to return favors, even those that are unearned. Those free repairs created a loop, doing more marketing than marketing could ever do.
Brain Food: The Math of Generosity
Les discovered that splitting profits 50/50 with store managers didn’t cut his wealth in half, it multiplied it. His reasoning was pure math: “If I share half the profits, I still have half. And if Frank makes more money, he’ll work harder to make the store successful. If the store is more successful, my half is worth more than my whole used to be.... See more
Brain Food: The Math of Generosity
I see a strong link between procrastination and what I call "tensing style."
When doing a task, we can either tense into it or relax into it.
Many people force themselves to do productive things with a kind of mental & bodily tensing motion.
When we build a habit of tensing into a task, our bodies start to associate acting with tensing.
This m... See more
Vachax.com"We weren’t born to do jobs."
Bill Gates says jobs are a relic of human scarcity. In a world without shortages, society will be able to produce enough—food, healthcare, services—without everyone working.
The real shift won’t be economic. It’ll be reprogramming how we think about purpose itself.
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"What would this look like if it were easy?" is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process. But what happens if we fram... See more
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