“Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you’re generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It’s like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.”
Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
Having in recent years thought a great deal about luck from the other side of the deal, so to speak, these were a strangely revelatory few lines for me—causing me to suddenly realise something so staggeringly obvious that I can’t imagine how I managed not to know it heretofore.
(If you’re thinking that doesn’t say much for my generosity, well, you might have a point. I’d counter that, for most of my adult life, I didn’t have much worth giving—or at least that I didn’t believe I did, which amounts to the same thing.)
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