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Give Before You Get #shorts

Name: Give Before You Get #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-10-30T12:00:09+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short advice clip arguing that you should give significantly more value than the requests you make. The speaker uses a "goodwill account" metaphor…

30 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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A short advice clip arguing that you should give significantly more value than the requests you make. The speaker uses a "goodwill account" metaphor: each helpful contribution is a deposit, and each request is a withdrawal, so one should maximize deposits (give generously) before making large asks.

The value you give needs to overwhelm the asks you're making. Right? So if you're only giving a little bit of good information on a podcast, but you're asking somebody to spend $5,000 with you consulting one on one, then you're doing this completely wrong. Okay? You can think of this as a deposit in your goodwill account every time you give a piece of valuable information. And it's a withdrawal from this goodwill account every time you ask for something in return. Right? And obviously, you want your goodwill account to be as full as possible at all.