Generosity.
What triggers people's generosity is a fascinating subject. Have you ever thought about what motivates you to give or even share?
In an intriguing social experiment involving what instigates people to give to people collecting money in the street, there was a surprising result. One smartly dressed man had a sign claiming that he was collecting funds in order to get a Lamborghini car. On the other side of the street was a young, plainly dressed girl, with a sign saying she wanted money for food. After one hour the girl had two donations and the man had received seven. Clearly things do not make sense for me. How can somebody's ambition to indulge their fancy of ownership trump that of giving for the necessities of sustaining life.
A heart warming experiment involved a homeless man, living on the streets, who was given one hundred dollars to see how he would spend the money. The organiser of the experiment was a little concerned, when the first place the recipient visited was an alcohol establishment but a short time later the recipient went into a general store and came out with lots of shopping. The recipient then returned to the area where there were other homeless people. He began handing out food and drink. This act of generosity moved the organiser to reward the homeless person with a further one hundred dollars, which he said should be spent on himself.
It is interesting to look at oneself and see what your first reaction is to someone asking for money. Of course even the decision about any money given could be dependent on the safety and authenticity of a given situation. Generosity has its own reward, is one of those ideas whereby actions can become highly influential and consequential.
There are many thoughts about generosity, but for me, often this quality is not only limited to human beings. On many occasions animals have shown other animals and even humans, generosity. Firsthand I have witnessed a monkey going to the trouble of securing some food and then sharing that banana with another pregnant monkey. Provoking and poignant reminders, of that need to look out for each other can come about because of generosity. I think that our ability to show compassion, albeit in a carefully considered way, is imperative to an expression about who people are and what it is that they want to achieve through their actions.
In an intriguing social experiment involving what instigates people to give to people collecting money in the street, there was a surprising result. One smartly dressed man had a sign claiming that he was collecting funds in order to get a Lamborghini car. On the other side of the street was a young, plainly dressed girl, with a sign saying she wanted money for food. After one hour the girl had two donations and the man had received seven. Clearly things do not make sense for me. How can somebody's ambition to indulge their fancy of ownership trump that of giving for the necessities of sustaining life.
A heart warming experiment involved a homeless man, living on the streets, who was given one hundred dollars to see how he would spend the money. The organiser of the experiment was a little concerned, when the first place the recipient visited was an alcohol establishment but a short time later the recipient went into a general store and came out with lots of shopping. The recipient then returned to the area where there were other homeless people. He began handing out food and drink. This act of generosity moved the organiser to reward the homeless person with a further one hundred dollars, which he said should be spent on himself.
It is interesting to look at oneself and see what your first reaction is to someone asking for money. Of course even the decision about any money given could be dependent on the safety and authenticity of a given situation. Generosity has its own reward, is one of those ideas whereby actions can become highly influential and consequential.
There are many thoughts about generosity, but for me, often this quality is not only limited to human beings. On many occasions animals have shown other animals and even humans, generosity. Firsthand I have witnessed a monkey going to the trouble of securing some food and then sharing that banana with another pregnant monkey. Provoking and poignant reminders, of that need to look out for each other can come about because of generosity. I think that our ability to show compassion, albeit in a carefully considered way, is imperative to an expression about who people are and what it is that they want to achieve through their actions.
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