Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/8/16

There is a “rebound effect” in growth. I was (and still am) a pinball machine buff, loving the old machines that would bounce the balls on flippers and electronic gizmos. The ball would often stay in play solely on the right bounces among the rebounding mechanisms.

Similarly, when we help others, they tend to help us. For example, teaching and coaching are excellent learning mechanisms—for the teacher and the coach. I learn more in every workshop I provide than anyone in the room. The top people in my coaching programs progress so far and so fast that they ask me increasingly complex and high-value questions, which force me to improve myself to provide effective responses. We both grow continually.

This phenomenon is the famous “virtuous cycle” (or “circle”) which is essentially reciprocal beneficial results for all concerned. All you have to do to benefit from it is to begin it, meaning an offer of generosity and outreach. In this day and age, that’s pretty virtuous right there!

Pick it up and read; for to not do so is to allow the enemy to bring despair.

– St. Augustine

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