How Generosity Improves Your Well-Being

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Generosity is often relegated to a bit part in our lives, an incidental thing we appreciate when we notice it but not something we consider important to driving our happiness or success. What happens when we put generosity at the center? In this episode of The Art of Accomplishment, Brett Kistler and Joe Hudson unpack the ways in which giving—whether of time, resources, or presence—is a direct line to our collective humanity and changes the trajectory of our well-being and sense of wholeness. They touch on: - The unspoken generosity of cultures that thrive on giving - How generosity exposes our attachments—our need to be seen, to be in control, to matter - The difference between obligation and true generosity - Moments where generosity is a lifeline, a language between people when words fail - The ways in which loss, grief, and generosity intersect The article Brett wrote and referenced in the podcast can be found here: https://open.substack.com/pub/inneradventure/p/welcome-to-iran?r=30w17r&utm_medium=ios

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0:00.0	It's a documented phenomenon that generosity can be one of the first steps you can take to improve your own mental health.
0:10.0	And even if you want to consider that a selfish way or a self-oriented way,
0:15.0	and yet it's also one of the last tools that people talk about or want to bring out.
0:28.8	Welcome to the art of accomplishment where we explore living the life we want with enjoyment and ease.
0:30.4	I'm Brett Kistler and I'm here with Joe Hudson.
0:33.1	Hi.
0:34.0	We're at the beautiful flower farm.
0:37.0	Santa Farms. Santa Farms.
0:37.8	Zana Farms.
0:39.5	Using this as our studio today.
0:41.4	And we've been really enjoying the in-person format of this podcast.
0:46.6	And we've been hearing great things about it and feedback from all of you guys, too.
0:50.4	So we're going to keep trying to do this as much as we can.
0:53.9	Let's talk generosity.
1:01.8	Years ago, I visited Iran. I was invited there for a base jumping trip. I've lived and traveled in
1:10.2	more than 40 countries. And one of the things
1:12.5	that I've noticed is that the cultures that are the happiest also tend to be the cultures where
1:16.7	generosity is really high. And in Iran, that turned out to be more true than almost anywhere
1:24.2	I'd ever been. And I was blown away. And in one instance, which I wrote
1:28.8	about recently, we can drop that in the show notes, but I found myself in a homestay in Tehran.
1:36.5	Yeah. And this family took me in. They made me dinner. I found myself at one point lying on the
1:43.3	floor playing Jenga with the daughters
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