Monte Wood
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192 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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let me define generosity if you go online and search for definitions they are all over the board and most of the definitions of generosity focus on giving money so philanthropy but generosity is much bigger so in the book we actually defined generosity is any of giving or kindness when done with no expectation of exchange or return from the recipient.
If you are doing this with no expectation of exchange or return from me or from your audience, then that is a pure generosity. That is where the purest power of generosity comes. My guess is... You're not doing your podcast because you want to be famous or you want to make a lot of money. My guess is you actually truly desire to help people and make a difference in the world.
And I appreciate that. And that's a driving force for many successful people, right? There's a scientific study that says that humans are the only species that... You are generous with those that they will never associate with or never meet. In other words, they're generous beyond their family, beyond their community, beyond those that they will ever know. That's a human trait.
And that trait is actually credited with the helping of creating societies and even a global community of such.
Yes, and I agree. So my book probably will not sell 100,000 copies, but I will tell you, Vince, that I've had 25 or 30 people Tell me the book changed their lives for the better. I had one person just last week came up and said that she changed jobs because she realized in reading the book that
That the people she worked for were not generous people and that she did not want to be in that situation. And she moved to another job and she said it's the best thing that has happened to her in many years. So that kind of thing is just such a beautiful reward. In fact, it spurs me to ask you a question. Is it selfish? to be authentically generous.
So again, with no expectation of exchange or return from the recipient in order to create your own success.
Yeah, I think your initial response, no, is a good answer. I actually believe that focusing on generosity, helping others, right, to pave the way for your own success isn't being selfish. It's just being wise. And this is a hard concept for people to understand, right? But truly generous people.
If you read up, if you pick up any book on success, there's a number of things they'll tell you that are going to lead to success. At the top of the list is always relationships. Close in relationships. Harvard just published their study, their 50-year study. And the most important aspect of happiness is for individuals out of their study was relationships, connected, close relationships.
Now the self-help books are going to tell you confidence. Then they're going to say mindset. And then they're going to say trust. And then they're going to say your own emotional well-being. And I believe that being a generous person leads to all of those. So being a generous person leads to success. If you know that, then you have a North Star. You have something that you can focus on every day.
You can attract success versus desperately pursuing it. And I think attracting it by being a generous person is a much more rewarding way of going through life. So let's break that down a little bit. Relationships. Everybody knows that generous people develop relationships faster and more meaningful. Courage. Let's talk about confidence and courage.
Most studies will tell you that it takes courage, it takes confidence to be generous. To do generous acts takes a certain degree of confidence. So you're actually practicing how to be courageous and how to be confident by being generous.
Mindset, let me ask you, do you think you will feel like you're more deserving of success if you're helping other people or if you're cheating other people in life? Of course, it's the former. Right. So you're going to feel like you're more deserving of life, so your mindset is better.
Trust, if you are really an authentically generous person with yourself, with others, with the world, do you think people will trust you more? And of course, that's a rhetorical question. The answer is yes, right? But the other thing is that your own emotional well-being, when you do generous... It'd be interesting if you ask ChatGPT, what are the scientific benefits... Of being generous.
They'll show you all of these studies and all of these benefits. And listen, it's beautiful. But they're actually your body. The hormone levels change. The dopamine levels change. Oxycodone is released in the body when you're generous. So you actually are healthier now. when you're a generous person. So all of these things lead you to being a more generous person by helping others.
And knowing that is just a wise thing. It's not a selfish thing. I see generosity as a win. When you're authentically generous with somebody with no expectations from them, they win. There's no doubt about that. That's simple. But There are many studies that say when you're generous with somebody like that, they're much more likely to be generous with other people. It creates a ripple effect.
So the world is actually a better place when you're generous with somebody. If all of these things add up to you being more generous, then it's a win. The person you're giving to wins, the world wins, and you win. And that's why I believe it's a superpower. That's why I believe that generosity wins. And I'll tell you another thing.
There's nothing as beautiful as going through life and creating success for yourself by helping others with no expectation, because in the end, You look back and you're just as proud. You're proud of what you did, but you're even more proud of how you did it. And there's a great happiness. There's a great joy that comes from being proud of how you lived.
This goes back to our discussion about is it selfish to be generous to create your success? And I will tell you that I believe there is a tremendous return on generosity. The ROI, the return on investment for generosity, may be higher than any other human behavior that you can put in place. Now, you do not expect return from who you're being generous with, right?
No exchange or return from who you're being generous with, or the group that you're being generous with, or the bathroom that you cleaned when you walked out. There is no return from the individual, but life gives you a tremendous return on your investment of generosity. There's a lot of philosophers that will talk about it. You can do research on karma.
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