Will HumphreysVirtual Assistant & Healthcare Recruiting Expert

Helping Others Helps You Most

Name: Helping Others Helps You Most
Uploaded: 2026-01-11T17:31:53+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: A short YouTube talk (transcript excerpt) where the speaker—Will Humphreys—argues that focusing on helping others improves your own emotional state. He…

11 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk (transcript excerpt) where the speaker—Will Humphreys—argues that focusing on helping others improves your own emotional state. He uses mission-trip anecdotes (Kenya; daughter on a mission in Costa Rica) to show that giving shifts attention away from personal problems and increases gratitude. The speaker also invokes a "giver, taker, matcher" framing and encourages being a giver to feel better.

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I am focused on others. Those feelings go away for me. I can only speak for what. What works for me. And I just try to make sure that my client base, kids, my children, understand that when you do that, you will see that those problems go away. You went to Kenya. My daughter right now is on a missions trip in Costa Rica. And I told her it's her first mission trip. I said, adri, you are going to get so much more for this from this trip than they are. I'm telling you right now, because you are going to see things. You are going to not only see things that make you realize how grateful you are for things that you might take for granted. Just the fact that you're going to be giving to other people, it's just going to unlock all those things, and it's going to take the focus off of you. That's it. You take the focus off yourself, you start to feel better. That's it. You guys, I mean, yeah, all the giving stuff and me saying giver, taker, matcher. I want you all to be a giver so you feel good, Sam.