Generosity Pays

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For more information, visit leadto.win. Presented by LeaderBox. The holiday season has often been associated with giving. But generosity isn’t a one-and-done kind of thing. It’s best to think of generosity as a habit or a lifestyle. Researchers have discovered a paradox—those who give receive back in turn. In this episode, we find out how a generous lifestyle can affect your happiness, bodily health, purpose in living, avoidance of depression, and interest in personal growth. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Lead to Win is brought to you by Leader Box, a monthly reading experience curated by Leaders,
0:06.6	Four Leaders.
0:07.8	Learn more at Leaderbox.com.
0:11.8	Parents go back and forth on what they should tell their kids about Santa Claus, but maybe they
0:15.8	should try the truth. He really existed. He came from what is now the nation of Turkey and his real life generosity
0:36.0	1700 years ago still inspires generosity today. We call Santa
0:41.1	Saint Nick for a reason.
0:43.2	Nicholas was born around 280.80 in the maritime city of Paterra
0:48.1	and spent much of his life in the coastal town in Mira.
0:51.2	He was a wealthy man, orphaned a young age, who became a
0:54.6	religious leader deeply involved in the life of the church. He went on a pilgrimage
0:58.9	to the Holy Land and was eventually ordained to Bishop. As far as Saints go, he's wildly popular.
1:04.6	The St. Nicholas Center lists 390 churches in America alone
1:08.4	that are named for him.
1:09.6	And there are churches all around the world named after St. Nick,
1:12.2	including one where I worshipped in Uganda,
1:14.4	the Orthodox Cathedral in Kampala.
1:17.2	Because Nicholas was and is so popular, he's attracted a lot of pious myths over the centuries,
1:21.9	and I'm not just talking about flying reindeer with red noses.
1:25.2	Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus.
1:30.0	One story about Nicholas probably does have a grain of historical truth though.
1:34.3	There are many different versions of it, but here's the gist.
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