R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

What’s important is that you keep working through things, and continue to make positive changes in your life. Eventually, when you make enough positive changes in your life, people start noticing, and they make positive changes in their own life.

You will not listen to this because I talk about money.

People either think that money doesn’t relate to them or their hyperfocused on getting ahead.

If you talk about money in a calm fashion, where it’s part of your life, nobody cares. If I talk about it in the sense that, you will gain “success,”only a small group of people will listen to it, and it’s likely the wrong group of people.

Just open, honest, and authentic conversations about money, and you’ll be surprised where it gets you.

If you focus on the negative and the cost of things, you will never see just how wonderful it actually is.

There are miracles happening every day, and people are making them happen, you simply have to be the person to see it.

Focusing on just the cost in the negative side will prevent you from ever seeing the world of possibilities that are closer to you than you think.

I offered $10 to 4 people FOR FREE. ZERO people have taken me up on the offer.

A very generous person gave me $20 to give to $10 to two people so that they would log onto the #R3ciprocity platform. I added another $20. Another generous soul said they would pitch in $20.

Exactly 0 people have taken me up on that offer since I posted it on social media. The post got 1000 impressions— a reasonable amount.

This is a fascinating commentary on what it’s actually like to build a #platform. You can literally give away free money and people will ignore it.

It reminds me of the well-known joke about economist that continue to walk over $100 bill because they believe it does not exist.

What is this say about human nature?

It reminds me of this funny video about what it’s like to sell something on Facebook marketplace. You should watch it, (but you won’t):

https://youtu.be/n4bRd0Zx1KU?si=tvh9RXrykPMFN5RZ

This is precisely why I think cooperation, in a niave sense, will fail.

This is precisely why I never talk about the “technology” behind the #R3ciprocity platform.

You won’t pay attention. You will discount it because you don’t know how difficult it is to build things on a shoestring budget.

You will say the software is terrible.

You are right. There is always room for improvement.

How do you sell a new product?

I tell stories, and I try to capture your heart, not your mind.

This is precisely why I no longer “teach” in the conventional sense in the classroom, but story-tell and encourage.

I teach about practicality, not about theory. This hurts me to say, because I believed in theory for so long.

But, theory, money, technology, and anything else rational does not stick.

People don’t believe in the technology, they believe in “you” or “what you stand for”.

You have to meet people where they are, and realize that a lot more to the problem then simple economics.

If it was simply about technology and economics, many of the problems we see with things, like retirement planning and college debt, would not exist.

You have to capture people’s hearts before they will believe.

By the way, the offer still stands. If you want free $10, simply comment below.

There is a dramatic difference between theory and the practical environment and the key issue is because the practical environment contains context that is unique to each individual participating in that context.

I just want to say thank you to the good Samaritan in my life.

You often need to accept people as they are.

Despite clear evidence, not everyone is open to accepting it. There are many reasons why people may feel uncomfortable with evidence, and it's important to recognize these factors.

Your role is to connect meaningfully with a few individuals and hope that those who don't accept the evidence still lead long and healthy lives.

Keep moving I’m feeling good about yourself well into your 100s. If you don’t make it there, at least you spent a lifetime smiling and playing.

"I don't know how to say no," often stems from fear and judgment about their past decisions. You may feel shame about how things turned out.

Remember, you can't control all the outcomes in your life; many factors are beyond your control.

From my experience, it's better to focus on how you felt when you made the decision, rather than the outcome. Often, making the decision was a positive moment in your life.

Consider ways to assert yourself or find compromises where you can be more proactive without feeling guilty about your actions.

Be lighter—saying yes or maybe is a beautiful thing.

Let go of the guilt associated with decisions that were meant to have positive results.

How things turned out was not because of you.

Persistency is key—just keep moving forward, one step at a time, day after day.

Often, the difference between those you complete their goals and others is simply the ability to rise each day and persist.

BLOCK OUT distractions and stay focused.

Progress might seem slow; most days can be frustrating, and it often feels like nothing is changing. However, it's the cumulative effort, consistently applied, that eventually transforms your endeavors.