Infectious Generosity

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes Chris Anderson, author of “Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading” where he explains how techniques for tapping into the potential of “the internet to turbocharge generosity” can fund and scale-up bold, audacious projects for the common good.

Chris Anderson is the founder of the Sapling Foundation, and Curator of TED, a nonprofit devoted to sharing valuable ideas, primarily through the medium of 'TED Talks' — short talks that are offered free online to a global audience. He is the author of Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading.

There're actually so many ways to be generous. And in the connected world, just acts of human kindness and sharing stories of human generosity can help transform the culture. We've somehow convinced ourselves that humans are pretty awful and especially “those other humans over there” are really awful and scary, and we don't want anything to do with them. And this is really dangerous because we're taking away what I think is humanity's superpower, which is the ability for very very different people to connect and to negotiate and to agree and to find ways of cooperating.

Chris Anderson

The key mind shift here is to flip from saying what change could I pull off on my own or with someone I know, to saying how can we create a moment of ignition, a moment of bringing people together in a way that they see each other and are persuaded by each other to do something big together.

Chris Anderson

Generosity is way beyond just money. It's time, advice, experience. It's a retired lawyer, a retired doctor, for example, providing counsel to local neighborhood or community groups. Sometimes they make connections, they help networking in these groups. So it's always good, I think, when you ask people for money to ask them for their advice, their time, their networks, the benefits of their experience. And oftentimes that way you can actually raise more money than if you just ask them for money.

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.0	Stand up, you've been sitting way too long.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove and along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David.
0:20.0	Good morning. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.
0:24.0	Hello, everybody.
0:26.0	This is really a special program among special programs on infectious generosity.
0:37.6	That's right, Ralph, these last few years we've all learned how easily infections can spread from person to person. But not all infectious things are bad. Laughter and yawning, to name just a few I can think of.
0:45.6	And according to Chris Anderson, we can add the concept of generosity to that list.
0:50.8	Mr Anderson is a curator of Ted, a nonprofit devoted to sharing valuable ideas primarily through the medium of Ted Talks, short talks that are offered free online to a global audience.
1:02.8	In his new book, Infectious Generosity,
1:05.3	the ultimate idea worth spreading,
1:07.6	he prompts readers to ask themselves,
1:09.9	am I a net giver or a net taker?
1:13.1	And outlines how we can reclaim the internet
1:15.3	as an amplifier of kindness.
1:17.9	We'll speak to Chris Anderson about why he thinks infectious generosity
1:21.1	his time has come, how everyone can play a part, and what the world will
1:25.1	look like with generosity at its center.
1:28.8	As always, somewhere along the line, we'll check in with our relentless corporate crime reporter
1:32.4	Russell Mokheiber.
1:34.0	But first, let's catch something good for a change.
1:38.0	David?
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