ITL040 : Why We Give
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2012
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Andy and A.T. discuss a letter sent in by a podcast listener about the power of giving.
A.T. reads a letter from an In the Loop listener.
· The listener describes why he gives away so many copies of The Traveler’s Gift.
· He began giving the book away while in the midst of a year and a half of unemployment.
“Giving is an unbelievable action that continues to produce returns that are unexpected in nature.”
· The listener’s time of unemployment was mitigated by the preparation he had undertaken, not knowing whether a time like that would ever come.
· Maybe it would have lasted even longer had he not been prepared.
· He understood the power of giving away not just a book, but a kind of thinking.
This listener knew that during this difficult time in his life he couldn’t think like everyone else.
· If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing something wrong…because not everyone is making it.
· If you want an above average life, you have to think outside of the average and what you see going on around you.
· The listener who wrote the letter probably had people telling him he didn’t need to be giving away books while he was unemployed and low on income.
· There is a lot of pressure from society to be normal. It takes a different way of thinking to overcome that pressure.
Living outside of the average will allow you to build a legacy for your family that will live on beyond your years.
· By setting an example of hard work and a different kind of thinking, your children will grow up with an understanding of those things
Questions for Listeners
· What have you learned from the power of giving?
o Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
o E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop with Andy Andrews, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:12.2 | Now here's your host, Andy Trob. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome back, everyone. It's an honor to spend some time with you today. As always, we're joined by my friend and yours, Andy Andrews. How are you, friend? Good, AT. I'm so excited to be here with you today. And I know I've got it kind of an overview |
| 0:27.1 | of what we're going to talk about here. I'm very excited about this one. Yeah, well, we're going to, |
| 0:30.2 | we're going to talk about, and hear about what can happen when someone is a giver, when someone |
| 0:37.4 | gives something away a lot. So this is some |
| 0:40.7 | listener feedback and it was a long email sent to our address, our feedback address, which is |
| 0:46.4 | in the loop at Andy Andrews.com. So I'm just going to go ahead and read it and sit back for just a |
| 0:51.4 | couple minutes. So here we go. I could write a book about giving your books away. |
| 0:56.3 | I have given well over 150 of the Travelers' gifts away to family, friends, |
| 1:00.0 | co-workers, and to every high school and college graduate from whom I receive an invitation. |
| 1:04.6 | For each graduate, the following is inscribed in a card in the front of the book. |
| 1:08.5 | Congratulations on your graduation. |
| 1:10.4 | The book included, The Traveler's Gift, is a fictional story with teach of the book. Congratulations on your graduation. The book included The Traveler's |
| 1:11.7 | Gift is a fictional story with teachable life applications. Each of us has had to make many |
| 1:16.2 | decisions thus far in our life's journey. You will have many more decisions in your life, |
| 1:20.5 | and each will play a part in who you will become. There are seven life applications found on the |
| 1:25.3 | Traveler's Gift that will help you in your journey to succeed. |
| 1:29.1 | If you will apply them. |
| 1:30.6 | Above all, look to God's word for instruction and then apply these seven decisions to your life, |
| 1:34.8 | and you will be a success in God's eyes and in life. |
| 1:38.3 | The response is almost without exception positive. |
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