A short spoken-word piece (YouTube video) by Brian Johnson advocating that one should help others without expecting anything in return. The speaker argues that investing energy in others produces collective returns via ripple effects: a single act can change someone's life and indirectly benefit others even if no direct reciprocation follows.
Your sole focus is, how do I help this person? Not because this is step one of my funnel, where I'm going to help them and then they're going to do this, and I'm going to ask them this thing. No, no. How do I help this person without any expectation of anything ever flowing back to me? If we can invest enough of our energy in the different people, whether or not it flows back through that person, it will flow back from the collective. And if you change someone's life in a conversation, in an experience, and they never talk to you again, no future relationship, but they meet someone who could benefit from the help that you gave them, they're going to say, you got to talk to my friend.
