Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant

BATB score: 7/10 💚💙

BATB reading level: advanced - strong discipline and determination required to finish reading this book

Best to: know that there are three types of people: takers, matchers, and givers; “being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon” yet, we are all three / tri-polar depending on the circumstances

Best as: better to just take the quiz https://adamgrant.net/quizzes/give-and-take-quiz/ , acknowledge that you are a selfish person, and either you volunteer two hours a week doing things pro bono for joy of giving or live with the fact that you are selfish taker 😈

BATB lingering thought: how long did it take for Adam Grant to write this book!?!? every page is constructive, thorough, data-backed, white paper research omg - I am tired just from reading it

Best for: “It’s easier to win if everybody wants you to win. If you don’t make enemies out there, it’s easier to succeed.”

Best quotes: “Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back.”

“Success doesn’t measure a human being, effort does.”

“Talented people are attracted to those who care about them.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms.”

“Doing a good job here is like wetting your pants in a dark suit; you get a warm feeling but no on else notices.”

“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”

“The more one gives, the better one feels; and the better one feels about it, the easier it becomes to give.”