A fascinating guy, Chris Anderson has run the TED Talks for over 20 years. He's the author of the new book

Infectious Generosity and we talk all about the benefits of generosity not

only for the entire world but for you the individual who is generous and all of

his adventures along the way with Ted here he is, Chris Anderson. This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altager show. your

show. This is the James Altager show. Well, Chris, thanks for coming on the show again. I really enjoyed the first time and, you know, of course, you've been running Ted for 23 years. I've spoken a couple of TEDX's and I always watch the TED Talks.

You've really been a great beneficiary in my life.

Well, it's great to be back and yeah, I actually just watched your TEDx San Diego talk and you're great. It was, it's, it's amazing to me that these people around the world are putting on these TEDx events.

You know, I have only ever seen a fraction of the speakers who've been on there.

But when you dig in there, there is just so much intrigue and goodness happening and it makes me very excited.

So thank you.

And look, you're welcome, you're very welcome and I actually just spoke at TEDx Boca Raton a year

ago and I would like to do more

because I like and this is related to your book infectious generosity

I feel for me I feel like I'm a good communicator

podcast or writer. Ted has become a way for me every

few years to impart what I've learned and what's benefited my life and share that with others.

So it's a form of generosity as you point out.

It's through storytelling. But I really want to talk about this great new book you have,

infectious generosity. Let's break apart the words

infectious and generosity. I'll start off you say something at the end of the

book towards the last chapter where it's very important that generosity is hand in hand with gratitude.

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