Monte Wood
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192 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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And not generous acts, but being a fully generous person. Walking around with the intent of being generous, you have to actually be aware of what's going on around you to be effectively generous. And if you are that aware, you're more conscious. And if you are more conscious, all of the studies show that you are going to be a happier, more joyous person.
So even that form of generosity comes back to you. Karma is real. Karma has been written about for 2,000 years. So karma is something that is not a new concept. And generosity has been written about. You can't pick up any, you can't pick up the Bible, the Koran, the Jewish Bible, the Book of Mormon. They all talk about the importance of generosity.
Almost every philosopher has talked about how important being considerate and caring about others is for your own well-being. Some philosophers have talked about it for years. I don't know why in society today we seem to ignore this tremendous power, this opportunity to be happy and conscious and successful ourselves today. by helping others, by helping the world.
It's such a powerful opportunity that if I could stand on the highest mountain and scream, please understand this, for your benefit,
I'll give an example that many people have quoted. One of the most successful people in history, actually. I worked directly with Steve Jobs when he was at Next and indirectly at Apple for many years. There are many quotes that circulate on the internet now of his last and final words with his best friends.
And all of them say that he talked about he wished that he had been more generous in his life. He wished he had benefited those around him. Now, I think there's a little bit of a misnomer there because he was not a kind person. I sat in rooms and watched him berate people. other people and do it in a very inconsiderate and unkind way.
But his generosity, his focus of generosity was to change the world and make it a better place. He wanted to empower everybody of all abilities to be able to use technology for themselves. And his compass was generous. His manner was not. And in the end, I think he wished that his manner had been different. So I think that's probably the best example that I can give.
Most of the great leaders that I worked with, John Chambers and Andy Jassy and many others, actually were generous people. They worked harder than those people around them to create success for others. Some of them were very myopic and maybe didn't have the best interpersonal skills, but I don't know that they were I wouldn't say they were not generous.
I think that maybe they just didn't understand generosity, which again is one of my goals is to help people understand what generosity is, how simple, very simple, easy things when done with the right intent can make a tremendous impact in the world.
I think that greed is a big part of it. And the reason I say greed is because there are powerful entities and people who are using divide, who are using conflict and creating conflict amongst parties to line their own pockets with money. When you have a media, all of our media outlets, there's not a single good one out there, right? They're not reporting news anymore. It's all opinion.
And it's all opinion to create divide and conflict. When you have such powerful entities that are trying to do that, it's difficult for the single person standing on a mountaintop to get people to understand. Now, I will say there are some really strong and powerful people that are focused on consciousness and generosity now. And we're beginning to see some of that effect.
And I'm not going to give you any names, but I'm fortunate to be on the inside of some of that. And I am hoping that those people can create, like you and I talked about earlier, collaboration. respect for each other. I don't have to agree with everything you say. In fact, I never will agree with everything you say, but I can respect your opinion and I can respect you as an individual.
And then I can respectfully disagree and we can be fine together. But it is now, it's almost if a lot of media is promoting that if you don't agree, then you should hate the person that you disagree with. And that is incredibly dangerous, in my opinion. What do you think?
Yep, I would agree. And you'd be surprised the people that are generous that you might not expect. Two and a half years ago, in a hot tub at a hotel in the island of Lanai, and Elon Musk and Grimes and X said, walked up to the hot tub. We sat there and chatted for probably 45 minutes. We weren't anybody in comparison to him.
He was considerate and gave us conversation and we laughed and he talked about a German movie that he had watched and was all animated. He could have just turned and walked away, but he didn't. He was considerate, and I considered it to be a very generous thing that he did. He left a very positive impression on me, like he really cared about people.
I'm sure when you're that wealthy, there's all kinds of limitations. And I know there were security guards in every direction, all in black, that we couldn't see. But he really stopped and cared about the conversation he was having with us. And that gives me hope. It really does give me hope that there are people, powerful people out there that will help us make a difference.
So the answer is yes. But I have to be careful, right? Over-optimistic. will turn people off. So if I am appropriately optimistic with the person that I'm talking with, if I'm understanding their energy, their way, how they communicate, the tone of their voice, their comfort with eye contact, if I'm aware of those things, then the optimism I give them in a way that they can absorb it is a gift.
I go through life thinking the optimism I share with people is a gift. It's a gift that maybe they walk away from me and are more hateful and more positive in the next engagement that they have in life. And it turns out amazing for them.
Yeah, in order not to be a hypocrite, I'm going to give an example because I think that I have to practice what I preach. I keep a journal. And in that journal, I document some form of generosity and some form of appreciation every single day. And I haven't always done this, but I think I'm very close to 600 days now.
of doing this and our recommendation in the book is just to do it for 30 days to document to actually be generous every day for 30 days so i set out to do that and i liked it so much that i'm now on day 672 or whatever it's just like anything else in life If you practice it, you will get better at it. You'll find a thousand ways that you can be generous. It may be sharing optimism.
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