givers

“And you know, there is a piece of the story that's explained by ability, but even after controlling for cognitive ability tests for various kinds of skill metrics the, you know, sort of the polarization of giver performance held up and it turned out to be much…”

“Like if you're a giver, don't be a giver with takers.”

“They would. But if you have strong matchers who really believe in, in fairness and justice over compassion and generosity, Then you have much, much more foolproof sort of taker detection and defense mechanisms. Because, you know, again, givers tend to be too t…”

“Jennifer Ocker has some data suggesting that, you know, sort of day to day takers experience more pleasure than givers do because they get to make like every choice is exactly what they want.”

“And, you know, I finally, as I took a closer look at the data, I found that, you know, for salespeople, for engineers and even medical professionals the givers were overrepresented on both extremes of the success spectrum. They made up a disproportionate numbe…”