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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

680 | Simon Sinek: ”Generosity is Doing Something for Someone Else Expecting Nothing in Return.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In today’s Throwback Thursday episode, Simon Sinek reminds us about the importance of human interaction and the true spirit of generosity, and that the best way to feel good and fulfilled in any area of your life is always to help others.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOBT is generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return

0:08.4

Here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm you know what day it is

0:40.8

It's throwback Thursday and we are turning back that clock to episode 174 and our features speakers Simon Sinek today

0:49.1

Simon is going to share a really funny story

0:52.4

about the spirit of generosity

0:55.6

and genuinely helping others with no expectation of anything in return here Simon

1:04.0

We go to work every day and we sit at our computers and we sit at our desks and we solve problems by sending emails

1:09.9

Get up and go talk to somebody

1:12.4

It's called human interaction and it's a beautiful beautiful thing

1:16.8

I'll tell you a quick story. I was on a plane

1:19.8

About it's about a week ago actually there's only about a week ago and

1:23.8

I was coming down the aisle and my seatmate I guess you know my my companion for the next five hours

1:30.7

Was already sitting down she was in the aisle and I had the windows seat and you know

1:35.6

We've all had this experience where you're the one who gets there first and you look down and you hope that it's that one

1:40.0

Please, please, please no, you know

1:42.8

praying that that becomes your seatmate. I've had many fantasies about wives and girlfriends

1:48.4

You that never sat down next to me

1:51.4

I

1:54.1

It's better than an icebreaker right? Hi, right sitting next to you

1:58.7

And equally we've seen people coming down the aisle saying please don't sit next to me please don't sit next to me

2:02.7

Don't we've all done that well she ignored me entirely

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