Engineering Generosity
Collection to inspire the book
Engineering Generosity
Collection to inspire the book
Insurance
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Give before getting
Because we don’t think about valuing the work to be done in the future, only the work to be done now, we don’t give people space to explore what the future holds. Instead, we stress people out by giving them vague possibilities of an uncertain future with no time to explore them. By giving people the time, space, and freedom to explore what the future might hold, they will find abundant futures that are bright and exciting. Those are the futures they will work to actively create.
Money is a captured subset of human value created. For people with plenty, it’s the default, because it’s easy to use. But for people without, that value is captured in ways like status, privileges, perks, etc.
Generous people view their possessions as temporary; they are joining in a bigger story. Generous people are always looking toward the needs of others by using what they have been given. Things don’t matter; people do. They open their house to others. They open their pool for parties. They let people borrow their cars. They freely give, with no ret
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Being good at reciprocity means knowing your friend well enough to know what kinds of things will contribute to them feeling loved and valued.
Trust and friendship
This is the goal of subminds