Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

You Don't Have Everything The Power of Everybody

25 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief reflective talk, Richmond Dinh argues that the term "everybody" should be reserved for people who have needs, because recognizing a need is what makes us consider someone part of the collective. He shares an anecdote about guests struggling to choose a gift for a person they believed "has everything," illustrating how the belief that someone needs nothing leads us to exclude them from the category of "everybody." Dinh invites listeners to reconsider how their assumptions about others' needs shape their sense of inclusion and the way they relate to people in everyday situations like gift‑giving.

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Everybody needs something. Keyword, everybody. What I took away from that is, personally for me, I didn't categorize those people as everybody. Everybody means everybody needs something. And so there were a few people that came over our home on Monday and said, I don't know what gift, they brought a gift and said, it was so hard for me to pick a gift for you because you got everything. If you think that someone has everything, or needs nothing, then you don't categorize them as everybody. And how many of you have thought, man, what if I wanted to get— like, if I wanted to get Russell a gift, if at the moment I have the thought in my mind that says he's got everything, then I don't think he's everybody.